WEEK 18 (Silence in the Wings)

This week for the Silence in the Wings project, i joined Kristen’s session. I’m this weeks session it was slightly different, we started the session off my sharing how are week was then we shared our monologues. We went round the group describing what our monologue was about then we had a go at reading them. When it was my turn, i felt slightly stressed and anxious because being honest, i didn’t read through the monologue or prepare. However listening to my other class mates and giving them feedback made me feel better.

I had a go at reading out my monologue and i think i did a good job, i got through it well and the feedback from my classmates was really helpful. I was told that i approached it calm and confidently. I thought my voice was clear and well projected. This feedback was really helpful and an improvement was to read over the monologue and get prepare. I think this feedback was really useful and i will take it into consideration so my monologue will run more smoothly next time. I think my classmates did a really good job, they each had good qualities about how they delivered their monologue, from this i can take inspiration to help improve my own performance.

This week is also the last week before heading into college to film silence in the wings. I have prepared a general idea of the structure of the performance and i’ve prepared what to say. I’m feeling excited and relieved to head back to college because i want to complete the silence in the wings project successfully.

WEEK 17 (Silence in the Wings)

For Silence in the wings week this week, i joined Kristen’s session on Thursday morning. This week we started off as normal, sharing what we had been up to over the week, which is nice to hear from everyone. The week before, we were asked to find a monologue so we each discussed what play it was from and why we chose it. My monologue was from the play Find Me by Olwen Wymark, which is a play about how society perceived mental illness in the 70s.

After this, we played some more exercises which brought us to the end of the session. We played hot seating but with a twist, we had to act as a famous person, i acted as a reality star from made in chelsea. This was really enjoyable and it made me laugh a lot as other people in the group had to put on accents. It took a long time for everyone to guess my celebrity, i really enjoyed this week.

Each week I can feel my confidence improving, I am really happy I have attended these sessions during lockdown because at times, it is easy to become anxious and stressed but with these sessions, they really help to improve my self confidence and they are a nice distraction.

WEEK 16 (Silence in the Wings)

This week, As usual i joined another session of confidence building with Kristen, on Thursday morning. This session was my favourite session because i really enjoyed the exercises. For one of the exercises we played hot seat, i found this task really funny because everyone in the group pushed themselves out of their comfort zone and took on a role of a character. I acted as a 42 year old Woman who is very spiritual and loves nature, I was asked questions about my character in which i had to find answers for on the spot. I thought i was going to do a terrible job of this task but when I completed it, i felt really good for giving it a go and it boosted my confidence when on the spot. I feel more confident and i definitely pushed myself out of my comfort zone.

I had so much fun in Kristen's session this week and as always, I am looking forward to the next one after half term! I am definitely benefitting from these weekly session and I am reaching my aim, which was to communicate more as a group and to overall boost my confidence.

Following up from the discussion of the group set design for Silence in the Wings, I was assigned to draw up the final set design from the point we made as a group. I was really happy with the overall design I had created, I think everyones ideas together make the plan strong and effective. I'm looking forward for the rest of the group to see it as it contains parts of everyone's individual set design's.