Wolf scene

Act 1, beginning part;

In this scene, we had everyone hiding in the audience, off stage and on the sides of the stage. Then after ten seconds of the heavy breathing, I run onto stage in a night gown covered in my own blood, scared out of my head, looking for a safe place to hide. I run to the middle of the stage, look at the audience, I then run to stage right, look at the audience again then I run back to the centre. When I get back to the centre for the second time there's a noise of werewolves howling. When this happens I'm slowly start walking up the steps, when I get to the top step I turn around and see all of the werewolves circling around me from the bottom. I then run to stage left, where I have two werewolves jump out at me then I run to stage right where I have two more werewolves jump out at me, I then run to centre stage, where I am completely surrounded. I collapse to the floor with a loud, quick scream with everyone is clawing me and "eating" me. After about 10 seconds we all stand up, clock the audience, then run at them, then there is a blackout.

I had a lot of difficulty with this scene, even though it's a quick scene, I found it really hard to act so terrified. We spent quite a lot of time working on this scene, one because I wasn't acting scared enough, and two because everyone else wasn't entirely sure when they should start walking out from the audience.

In the end we decided everyone should start coming out when I start walking up the steps, and when I turn around at the top step everyone should be halfway on the stage-(except the people on the stage hiding just behind the curtains), then I run to stage left where I have two of the werewolves jump out at me, then I run to stage right and have two more run out at me. When this is happening, the werewolves on the floor are coming closer and closer until I reach centre stage and they're all around me and I collapse to the ground and then they start ripping at me, making it look like they're ripping me to shreds and eating me, from the audience's pov.

To help me act so scared, before I run onto stage I started heavy breathing, and making myself shake and make my eyes water a little. Then I'd run onto stage as fast as I could and look around everywhere.