This week we had two performances of "Split" in the Pelagatti  theatre, and both had different outcomes. The first day, we showed the play to Form 1, and even if there were a few mistakes, the audience was quite receptive and did react to the funny bits. Yet, the next day's performance was to the Form 2 students, and even though the performance itself had less mistakes, the audience did not react very much and didn't find it funny. This shows how different audiences can have different reactions to the same thing.That's why its so hard to trying to find "funny" or comical things to put into a script or play, because there will never be something that works for all audiences, taste and humour are different within each person. What we have to do when writing the script and rehearsing is to try and narrow down our audience as much as we can so we have an idea of what these people are going to react to. In our case our audience were school students, teachers and parents, which weren't english native speakers. After having done this, we put in things the audience could identify with, like chicken delivery men, or faulty technology, which we recognize in our society. But even within this audience we had set, we saw different reactions. Which means that if we base our improvements on one audience's reaction, it does not mean that the next audience will react to the things we added or improved, so its just a matter of trying to reach the biggest amount of people possible, because there will always be people that wont like the performance, or find it boring.

We just have one more performance of "Split" left, and I hope the audience will react better than in the last performance. But in terms of how I feel as an actor in the performance about our play, I would have to say that im happy about how things worked out, and I like the final product. At the beginning of the project I was completely unsure about the success of the play, due to the time we had, and that we were the ones that had to create the whole thing, but little by little as we started creating it, and it became more tangible, this uncertainty completely dissipated, and through group work we ended up having a play that worked. Now that we are finishing the PPP, I can see what most of the other plays of the festival lacked, working on a concept. Because really, that was the base that we worked on from the beginning, which made all of our inputs and elements coherent inside the play.

A good performance in the actor's point of view can turn out to be not so amusing to the audience, and viceversa, so, can there be any certainty at any time that a play is going to work?