Diary: Day 12 - 14/05/13

We received an e-mail from St Margaret’s church today and they had given us two dates to possibly perform on. One was towards the end of July and the other was the 17^th June and so we had to pick the 17^th June. This meant that we have roughly three school weeks until the performance, so we decided to just decide on an idea for a story and characters in the first period, to create a scene in the second. In the end we decided on the idea that the church was seen as a sanctuary and so the society would be crumbling outside (riots in the streets and similar pandemonium) and we would treat the audience as people who have just escaped from the outside – rushing them in and sitting them down in the warmth. We then decided on a few characters, these were: Prime Minister, Priest, two squatters, businessman and someone who has recently lost a loved one. We thought these characters were quite diverse and so could have lots of conflicts and views on the outside world. We then split up into groups to create a scene: Joe and I were together, he is playing the person who has lost a loved one and I am playing the priest. This left Jay, Millie, Dave and Stevie – Jay and Millie were the squatters, while Dave was the businessman and Stevie was the Prime Minister. By the end of the lesson, we had each created a rough scene, but it wasn’t finalised, so we would take it away with us and work on it overnight (as well as our chosen characters). Next lesson we will start off by showing these scenes to the other group, then make one or two more scenes, this way we are working towards having lots of scenes, but no order – we can put an order together at a later date as we don’t want to have a good order, but no scenes.