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My first thoughts are both excitement and nervousness; which i think is every actors response to getting a new role. This will be the first performance I've done where it isn't hosted inside a school or college. Where the invitation won't go out to parent and friends, but to everyone nation wide. Anyone from across the country could come and see this performance and that is a little nerve racking to me. However this will be a great experience and a new role for me to get stuck into so I am very much looking forward to it. 

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The role is a murder mystery where we'll have to walk around the room and be asked questions. And we don't know what the audience might do or say to us meaning we'll have to learn to stay in character at all times no matter what. I think this is going to be the most difficult part as I know that our drama group is known for laughing and breaking character when mistakes are made; this is evident during our filmed pieces of Black Adder and Once Upon A Time. However unlike film where you can simple stop the camera, laugh it off, and start again, this is theatre where you don't get that luxury and must stay in character at all times. Although we are pretty well trained actors so we should be able to not break character so perhaps this is me over thinking. But just to be cautious i think we should have a lesson dedicated to others trying to get us to break character to see how well we all can do. it might be a good training exercise. 

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Trying to put on an actual performance event with such a limited crew is going to require a lot of work and multirole responsibility. Many of us are going to have to be take on roles more than just actor such as prop making, costume designer, set design and directing if we are to be able to evenly balance out the work load. We will have to keep good communication with each other to keep everyone up to date on the different roles and departments we will each have to handle as well as making sure our time management is handled professionally as we don't have lots of time to create this play from scratch. But when working on a performance like this team work is key and with so little information to go off at this moment we should be flexible not knowing what may change later during development.

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Overall I excited to see the outcome and considering last year we only had until November to but on a show and this time we have until December, I sure with the extra four weeks we'll be able to make something fantastic in no time.