Comedia performance

Today we performed our Comedia acts. Because we weren’t prepared to do a full skit we cut it and instead of coming up with something last minute, we decided to show the public a preview of what we would take to Argentina.
I think the performance went ok. It wasn’t great because none of the actors had full physicality and I think the main reason for that is, people rely more on words than actions. we think too much of what to say and forget that it’s Comedia. If you want to be funny, your body is the key to that, not what you say. There were times when the audience was laughing, but they didn’t laugh as much as we expected and it was because we weren’t physical enough.
Another thing that in my opinion went bad was the ending. We know it was a preview to what we will take to Argentina, and we know that there is an ending to the story. The audience didn’t get that message. Because we didn’t end the act properly, and nobody mentioned that there is actually half the story left, the audience didn’t understand that so they weren’t sure if we were done with the performance or we were doing some dramatic pause or something. I think that was the biggest mistake because the ending is always one of the most important aspects in a performance, because it’s what the audience remembers the most.
Still, after some groupthink during class we came to the conclusion that we have bonded a lot as a group through this activity because we all had to cooperate and listen to each other in order to move forward. I still think we have a lot of bonding left to do, but we took the first step and that’s something good.