4th lesson
Today we were in the Drama room starting to set up the room ready for Jessica Farmer, a WYP education officer, to interview her on her job and the playhouse and for her to ask us what we want out of the Offstage Choices day, in which we will be learning about the jobs behind (or infront of, but not on) the stage, and to tell us what we were going to be doing. We had a brief amount of time to look over our questions to make sure we knew what to ask her before she came in. She asked us general questions, like "Whats your name?" and "What theatrical stuff have you done recently?", to get to know us more and what sort of performing arts things we’ve done before. She then told us about what was going to happen throughout the day and what the theme of the day was going to be around, which was Aladdin and so I thought it could be cool.
After she’d explained about what we were going to do we began our interview, and some of the things we found out were:
Q. “How do you class a successful production?”
A. “We mainly class a successful production by critic review on the performance or by the audience’s reaction to it and ticket sales.”
Q. “What do you class as a failed production?”
A. “Productions never rely ‘fail’, and it’s very difficult to have that happen considering while some people may hate a performance, others will like it. And vice-versa.”
Q. “What are the benefits, for both West Yorkshire Playhouse and us, in days like Offstage Choices?”
A. “For West Yorkshire Playhouse the benefits of the day are that it encourages people into theatre more, and shows them the workings behind the production. For young people like your selves it lets you experience more and lets you know the workings, and gives and shows you the range of opportunities within a theatre.”
I found out a lot about the other creative aspects of theatre in this interview and can’t wait for the in depths delve into the offstage choices of theatre! After the interview we thanked her for coming and left for lunch.
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