Evaluate your own performance in Commonground.

my own performance I think was particularly good, in fact I think it was the best performance I have done at BRIT to date. I think I did well in three specific areas, by way of what I've been told. One thing I think I acheived formidably was stage presence. I think I really did hold the stage when it was necessary and I tried to make eye contact with the whole audience at some point to draw them into the story that I was telling. I think I brought a dark and forceful energy to the stage and in sends I think I was quite different from most other characters in the play. This energy was built by talking to the audience, holding that anger in and being clear and loud.

This is my second point, I think that my accent, diction and projection were well realised on stage and that this helped to up the energy and interest the audience, as well as having that clear draconian presence on the stage, I think that I kept the audiences attention throughout and held the stage when it was necessary for the character.

My third success is the one I feel I worked hardest on and rewarded me the most, and that was getting and staying, in character. I think I did this well and only noticed myself dropping out of character (twice) momentarily in the performances. The build this character me and Khai started by reading the script and starting with a physicality on which to build from. I then looked at how I could make the character real instead of just a cold robot. The first time I really felt the character was in rehearsals when the son dies. I tried to keep this three-dimensionality on stage and felt the emotion all the way, the first time I really felt the emotion on 'That's it! That's exactly how it was' was in the first performance, I had never realised how much emotion came after and during that line that I could and not just act. This experience was also replicated with the fight scene, a lot of it was improvised, but worked very well, because Hayden had the great idea of squeezing my throat for real each night (but I kicked him in the head one night, so revenge was mine!) which really gave the reality of that moment that we were after. And the last example of my character was my famous chair kick on the last show. I had been told to make sure it wasn't broken for the other performances, so I had to withhold myself and keep from kicking it too hard, except for the last night where I truely let my character take over and scared a lot of people (including myself)!

All in all I think it was a wonderful show to be a part of, it was a stunning professional-level cast, with some of the most stela acting, I've ever seen and of course the direction was absolutely perfect, Jack would have made Hitchcock jealous!