On Tuesday we performed our play for the Briary Gap Competition in Mullingar. We had been working on it for months. It started off with different groups in the class coming up with ideas and grew from there. We chose to do a play called 'Willow'. In summary it was about William Shakespeare really being a girl and how she was inspired to write the well known play 'The Merchant of Venice' when she was transported through time to WW2. Our play highlighted issues such as antisemitism and sexual discrimination.
I played a Jewish man in the play. It was a small part but I was still nervous before I went on in case I messed it up. Overall i think the play went really well. Everyone performed brilliantly, the sound effects and lighting turned out well, our costumes and make-up looked good and everyone done their part to make it a success.
All the other plays were also really good. We don't know who got through yet but were hoping for the best. Even if we don't get through I don't care because we had a lot of fun working together to make the play and to perform it. We all learned alot about performing in front of an audience and how there's so much more going on behind the scenes of a play that you don't even realize. It reminded me of going to see Elf the musical and how much effort must have gone into making the sets, costumes, doing the make-up, writing the script, composing songs, and of course how much the actors must have rehearsed it to make it perfect.
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