Shadow Shows

As we first walked into the caf, turned down the lights and brought up the music, I heard someone who must have seen a flyer exclaim, "something IS going to happen!" The feeling I got from the room at first was excitement. To be quite honest I wasn't able to focus as much as I would have liked on the audience's reaction. I was trying to concentrate on getting through our show as smoothly as possible, and the dark room also made it more difficult to see reactions. What I picked up on was a few people who were very engaged and others who dismissed what was going on and carried on with their conversation. Though there was a boy sitting fairly close to our show and I could tell from the corner of my eye that he stuck with our show all the way through. Even at a couple points when I was fumbling with the puppets he patiently waited for what was going to happen next. I think our performance was worth it if we received appreciation from even a handful of people.