Complete the text with the missing words. The first letters are given.

0 We went to see an eagerly- awaited performance in our college last night. Well, I must say I was extremely impressed by the performance we saw. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a young 1 c________ of actors connect with their audience like that. I know they have been working very hard to prepare for the play and have had 2 r_________ almost every day. It was certainly worth all that effort. I thought that Marco, who played the 3 p________ of the father, was particularly good. He managed to express a lot of emotion in what was quite a challenging 4 r_______. I spoke to some of the actors after they came off
5 s_______ at the end of their performance – they said that they were very tired, but very happy with how things had gone.