Pace and Energy

For 39 steps due to it being in the style of vaudeville. It had to be very fast paced to deliver the comedic value of the performance. Not to mention there were only 4 of us acting and there was about 8 different parts. So some of the characters had to multi role, which again was true to the style. We made the performance very quick paced because it doesn't give the audience a chance to get bored. There was always something going on. Someone doing movement or talking. This meant that we could not slow down. Because it would completely go against the style of the performance. 

Saying this however during the comedic parts of the performance. Slow movement was used. For example. During Toby and Toms scene when they are playing the elderly characters. They slowly stumble on stage pulling funny facial expressions. This had a better effect on the audienc because it was really slow. Also during Toby's speech when he was talkin quite slowly and stumbling over his lines. The audience cracked a lot of laughs. 

This is how we knew we had delivered the play well. We got a great reception from the audience. Even I had trouble holding back my laughter at some points because it was just overwhelmingly funny. Also the pace between scenes were short and snappy. There want really any scenery or back drops. Only occasionally a different chair or a fence was brought out to symbolise a different scenery. Costume changes were snappy and fast. We couldn't at all drop the energy. We ended up delivering an incredibly funny piece. And if lines were forgotten or somethin went wrong onstage (which happened) we quickly improvised with even more comedy. The audience didn't even know any mistakes were made.