Week# 17 One Act Play

Its finally over, we are done with the one act play and even though there were some mistakes and some things that could have been better it all went better than expected. The things that needed to be changed were not part of the final product, our play was good and the audience liked it so I feel that in the end it was more than what we were expecting. As far as the production goes, there are many things that I learned:

1) Dont do tomorrow what you could have done 2 days ago: never leave anything for the last day because then it will screw you up. There was one mistake in the play and that was that one of Stefano's breasts fell and that was because the decision to deflate one of the balls was made just when we were leaving for Hiram Bingham so we never got to actually rehearse with the new "Implants" so even though Stefano did a good job fixing it on stage when the breast fell, it is something that didn't need to happen. Also I think I should have gone to gamarra to buy everything before because we had many rehearsals where the costumes were not 100% ready so we couldn't know how it would all look like and in my case I didnt know how uncomfortable the doctors clothes really were until I actually tried them on 2 days before the play.

2)Don't be lazy: I admit that because of our laziness the designs for the costumes had to be done 4 or 5 times because we presented things that were either not done correctly or done very badly and because of that the process was stalled a bit.

3) Work Fast: if you dont work fast you loose time and with a thing like this time is very important because we actually had very little time to do everything and we did not realize that until it was too late and then we had to stay in school rehearsing until 7 pm

4) Learn your lines: that one is self explanatory

5) Work as a team: Many things happened throughout the whole process of doing the play that made us loose time, starting with the designs for the costumes, because of the costume team (Nicolas and I) we lost a couple of classes redoing everything and we could not go on with the makeup, sound, props and scenery. Also without mentioning names some people (including myself) did things or didn't do things that  made everything go slower and made all of us loose time.

Apart from all these things I believe that our play came out very good, with people saying that "It was the best one act play of the bunch" "It was the best one act play ever" and "Mejor Obra que he visto a lo que EVER! Felicitaciones!" so yeah it went better than expected.

P.S. I went to watch the other plays the next day and they were not all very good. The one from Markham was about 7 jewish kids, it was slow and boring, its game consisted mainly of projecting an image on a piece of scenery but it did not work. Maruf the Cobbler from St. Georges was a kids play so it was fine, it was cute and the little kids did a good job, a little bit too long though. The Gilded Bat from San Silvestre was good time but not necessarily good, aesthetically I really liked its gloomy look because it had a Tim Burton-ish feel and I believe they were going for something like that also because of the way they moved and the makeup helped the look very much. The only problem with this one is that it was fun at first but after the first few minutes it died down very quick and did not pick up so after 7 or 8 minutes I already wanted it to finish, it was the best out of the 4 though. The last one was from Hiram Bingham, it was simple and some of the acting was fun but apart from that it was dull and repetitive, I was really looking forward to this one and maybe that is why I disliked it so much; it had funny lines but it was an already scripted play so no props can be given to the school for that :/.

P.P.S. Hiram Binghams head master congratulated us for our play the second day saying that it was "the only play written and produced by the students" but we all know he meant "It was the only play worth paying for"