Diary: Day 15 - 21/05/13

We thought that it would be a good idea to start blocking the next two scenes in the show today. So we sat around and decided that after Jay and Millie’s scene, Jay will usher the audience into the next room – where Dave is – he will then start the scene with Dave and we find out a lot about their characters. After this, we decided that the scene should shift to the opposite side of the church, so the audience simply turned their heads, rather than actually having to move entirely – here we would have a scene that explores Stevie’s character’s background. We then split up into two groups and created the two scenes – Jay and Dave’s scene involved each of them freezing at different times (allowing the other character to come out and perform short monologues) revealing how they know each other; in our group, we explored how Stevie’s character coped with becoming the new prime minister through a flashback, then allowed it to lead onto the scene between me and Joe (that we created in an earlier lesson). After this we thought it would be a good idea to lead onto a final scene involving all of us. We decided it would be a good idea to slowly build up the sounds of the riots outside, and then use the stairs to symbolise a barricade within the riots. Tonight, we will all think about different poses/movements that will show us trying to keep the riot away, and then we will figure out a way to end the performance tomorrow. Today was extremely useful because we blocked two more scenes and we are now very close to having the whole performance ready.