Performing "working" at I-Poly

So far, this month has been a busy one for me. I have been so busy of model assembly and final performances at my Mentorship, but nothing can compare to my independent component 1. As soon as thanksgiving break was over, the drama team went straight to work. it was the week of the performance and and everyone, including me, have to stay long hours on Monday and Tuesday to do the last dress rehearsals before the performance on Wednesday. During the last rehearsals, My drama teacher, Mr. Hogan, went through every scene of act 1 and 2 to make sure everyone had there lines down and all of the big choreography went well. During that time, many of the actors make some mistakes and we have to work on one particularly scene to get it right. As for me, Hogan told me that I just needed slow down my monologue since I speech so fast when it comes to presenting to someone and work a little bit more my movements of building blocks. Luckily I was getting a little bit help from my speech teacher name Diana Jimenez to help me to work on my speaking skill during my lunch time on couple of Thursdays for the last few months, which help me a lot.

Anyway, After long hours of dress rehearsals on Monday and Tuesday. The day of the performance finally came. Almost everyone one was nervous of how the play would go and Hogan told everyone that we work so hard on this and wish us luck. As soon as the play begin, I felt so much energy within me that I could do anything on stage. During the performance, every scene went very well, including the choreography scenes. When they got to my monologue scene, I felt little bit nervous at first but when I began, every line I said came out naturally for me since I was practicing my monologue a lot for the last few months. After the performance. Everyone was glad that the show went very well and everyone in the audience love it.  We then perform it again on Thursday and Saturday and it went better than I thought. Many people of the audience were giving complements to the drama team  for putting an outstanding performance. There were even some, including Mrs Ortega, who were complementing and congratulating me on my performance, which made me really happy. Even though the play is over, the drama team will be performing it again in March at the Fullerton Festival , which I can not wait for. This will give me and the others in the drama team the time to make performance even better.

Everyone is busy to get everything done before the next day of the performance. As you can see, you can see Shoemaker working really hard to get the truck prop done and it was a lot of work for him. Luckily he had help.

On the last day of the dress rehearsal, Hogan was giving some points to everyone to see if any of us needs to improve something in our scene and giving us notes of what to expect tomorrow for the performance.

Everyone on the stage was doing pretty well and the way we were singing was awesome, I couldn't believe that we can sing really good on the performance seen we kind of sing horrible during rehearsals. But everything went well.

This is the scene where I do my monologue as a stone mason.while pretending to build a wall out of brinks. The way of the position I was in, it kind  look like I was doing a hamlet scene of to be or not to be, which is kind of funny because I did a monologue of it last year. 

This was technically the ending scene of the show. This was the the difficult one for us for this scene, since we only practice it only a few weeks before the play, but before you know, it turn out very well at the end.

Another Picture of me doing my monologue.

This was the scene of end of act one where everyone comes in together to sing the song called 'If I could've been"

This was the pamphlet of our play that was given to everyone who came to the play.