On the 19th May 2015, after four months of actual blood, sweat and tears (no exaggeration) JumpCut presented Username at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre!

When developing our show, we intended for our performance to be humorous and jump cutting to a serious subject, however we never imagined the reaction we had on the night. The reactions we received were shocking, overwhelming and emotional. I did not expect such wonderful and kind comments! My personal favorite:

From Andy Jordan:

 

It has been such a pleasure working with three amazingly talented and determined artists. As the director, seeing the creation on the night was very overwhelming and a hugely proud moment and even better than I imagined. As a close team, we collaborated our ideas together and created a piece of theatre that we were all truly proud of.  I honestly believe that all our hard work and hours of time and effort was worth it and that Username reflected the JumpCut style and delivered a mixture of humor and a serious, shocking emotional piece of theatre. The development Username has come a long way since initial ideas.

I could not be happier with how the show was delivered on the night. Throughout rehearsing I always encouraged my fellow actors to give as much energy as possible however after the technical rehearsal, Michael Pinchbeck mentioned to up the energy even more, and I feel we did exactly that! When the show finished were all exhausted, sweaty and completely out of breath! The clothes were off the rails physically and we were too!  If JumpCut decided to develop the piece I would definitely consider incorporating more audience interaction through technological devices, for example social media and phones, also possibly even more destruction for example, breaking our phones and ripping up our clothes. Overall I have found that the position of director challenging, rewarding but most importantly, fun!

We obsessed, we took too many selfies, we contorted our body until it was painful, we got sweaty, out of breath and covered ourselves in make-up, we officially went too far and hit destruction!

Chloe-Ann Gudge- Director.

 

Works Cited:

Chase, R., Gudge, C., Hartley, S. and Haynes, H. (2015) Username. Lincoln.

Gudge, C. (2015) Username. Lincoln.

Jordan, A. (2015) Drama Subject Site (DRA-SUBJECT): Username. [email] University of Lincoln, 22 May.