Production skills and context

From my point of view I think the performance went great! I remembered all my lines, didn't mess up or stutter on any words and my voice was projected loudly enough for the whole audience to hear. As I would speak to the audience my focus was directly on them and I stayed in character through out the play.

 I always worried in the rehearsals how I would do it and had second thoughts of being the mum since all I do is speak to the audience and stare directly at them but it went better than I expected and  I wouldn't mind doing it again I really enjoyed this performance. I have been practicing through out the rehearsals how to stand still and to have a straight posture with my head up straight as well and to give eye contact to who ever I speak to and it worked. Looking at little clips on the play and doing some background research also helped me to develop my character as the mother. I had to really dig deep to my emotions and try to understand how I would feel if that actually happened to me as you may or may not know my character is very hurt about the situation of her daughter transition into a boy  and try's to hold onto every memory that she had of Dean being a girl up to the point that Dean even cut up all the photos of when she was young, she is trying so hard to erase the memories out of her head while I am trying hard to cope with how she's changing right before my own eyes and I have nothing I can do about it.

Being the mum in the play gave me an insight of how some families feel when they have a child that  transitions into a male or female. You never really get to know about how the parents or siblings feel about it or how they are copying so I am glad that I played the mum because I feel that I was able to let the audience understand how hard it is for us as the parents to cope with it, in this case it did not just affect Dean but it also affected his boyfriend Josh her little sister Dani and me and the Dad. Dean did not inform anyone about how she felt about her self before it happened and then suddenly waking up to see your baby girl dressing and practising how to be a boy just broke my characters heart.