Chaotic Combinations

This weekend, the 8th and 9th of October, I took part in Organised Chaos' 'Chaotic Combinations' competition.
On arriving at Salford University we were split into groups, one writer and two actors. We were given stimulus points to work from, Long Lost, Family Celebration and A Special Event, the groups then dispersed into different studios to work.
In my group there was myself, Roxanne a drama student at Manchester University and Stephe a budding writer about to go and study for her MA in Creative Writting. We were drawn to the theme of Long Lost, which led to the idea of Long Lost information having an effect on a current friendship. It became a heavily devised piece.
The next day myself and Roxanne again met at Salford University and ran the scene several more times, attempting to make our acting style more dynamic and energetic in places to make the piece more entertaining.
We then went over to Kro Bar, to prepare for the competition, after a dress rehearsal and lunch, nerves started to mount. The other groups scripts were of a higher standard, which left me and Roxanne feeling slightly intimidated, the other actors spoke with their writers about character development and delivery, due to other comitmments Stephe couldn't be with us at the competition, more reason for myself and Roxanne to feel under prepaired.
The compeition was great, led by a professional comedian as compere he roused the audience and perpare them for the acts they were about to see. We acted our piece to the best of our ability and we had many comments from fellow actors and the writers that they enjoyed the concept of our piece and thought our acting was good. All in all it was a fun experience, it was great to see creative people working together in a fun light hearted compeititve manner, I'm looking forward to joining in similar events in the future.