Briery Gap

On Tuesday this week, the TYs in our school took part in the Briery Gap Drama Competition in Mullingar.  Our category involved writing our own script lasting 10 minutes and acting it out.  I was in a group with Jane, Gemma, Aoife, Hannah, Aoife, Beth and Carol.  We started writing our script in October and a lot of practice lead up to this day.

Our play came to be after we all agreed we liked the Fault in Our Stars.  To change this however, we focused on a teenage girl fighting death, rather than the lead up to it.  There were lost souls, voiced by Beth and Carol, who were trying to convince the teenage girl, Eva (played by Gemma), that it was her time to die.  I, as the mother, had to keep her friend (played by Aoife) and her sister (played by Jane) calm in this situation.

The actual day was very nerve wrecking.  We had never practiced with our sound effects, on a stage and fully without our scripts.  It really came together on the day though.  The audience understood where we were coming from, even though the sound effect was too loud as we had never used it before, and we spoke quite quietly.

It is kind of disappointing now that our play is being put to rest as so much time has been put into getting it to where it is now.  It was a great experience and really helped us in getting to know each other!