Today, we were divided into groups, different from the ones we had been working with on our scenes, and we were all given a devising form to fill in. Our job was to ask the other members in our new groups(all from different scenes) what worked and didn't work and then think about these comments on ourselves.

What worked and why?
  The comments that I got for what worked in our scene was our clear voices and projection, good emotions and portrayal of different characters. All of us in the scene were easily heard and clear with what we said, even though for example I had difficulties with my accent. Still, by working on the clarity and annunciation really made up for what I lacked with accent. We were also able to switch quickly between different characters, like when me and Sophie switch from servants to the mother and father of Max's character, which we did on stage without going on and off stage.

What happened in devising/rehearsals to make this happen?
   I feel that one of the main reasons why we were able to create such strong and believable emotions, was because we talked a lot about the characters and their back stories before we started to devise the actually scenes. Even though we should have done more improvisation right from the start, and just get on our feet and start doing, we spent an amazingly long time just planning things and talking about the characters. This way, when we did start to properly devise our scenes, even if the main idea had changed some bit, we still had those characters and their stories in our minds, helping us to create those emotions, even if we only had a brief time to express them. What made the scenes clearer and our lines better to understand, was simply going trough the scene over and over again, until we knew all the lines by heart and how we were supposed to say them.

What didn't work and why?
   One major feedback that I got, was that people wanted to see more dialogue and know the characters better. This is very true, since our scene ended up to be quite short, we weren't able to develop many of the characters further, and even our main character could have had more sides to himself.

What could you have done in devising/rehearsals to improve this?
   We should have stated a clear main point we wanted to make with our scene. Sure, going trough tens of ideas is good, but since we didn't really even have the core of the show, the message we wanted to tell to the audience, we wasted a lot of time on throwing out ideas back and forward, without knowing what to do with them. And in the end, when we finally decided what to do with our scene, we felt that we had too little time to go into too much depth with the characters, since we were afraid that the storm of ideas would start all over again.

What changes could you make to improve the show?
   I would have rehearsed more and really looked at the details more closely. We had some little problems during the show, like in the beginning when us girls are supposed to be on a straight even line, the line needed up being everything else but even. I would have wanted to pay more attention in those kind of things to really make an impression with our piece. I would have also loved to further develop Max's character a bit more, maybe added another section about his relationship with his mother or something to show that he isn't all bad.