Diary: Day 21 - 11/06/13

Yesterday, Joe and I went through our scene and tried out ‘God and Satan’ and managed to get it to a standard that we liked. We will now learn the scene at home and the next time we do it, we should know it enough to perform it properly. This was extremely useful as it was one of the very few scenes we hadn’t quite finished. Today we all discussed the building of the barricade as we had experimented a little with it, but hadn’t finished it entirely. We decided the best course of action would be to get a lot of cardboard boxes to create the barricade out of, so we will have to do this another time. We then moved on to the ending as we desperately needed to decide how we wanted our characters to end up. We finally decided that Dave’s character would get up after the quiet scene where we all talk about what we wanted to do when we were younger, and he would then explain that he wants to fight for his life. One by one we would join him and eventually we would all sing ‘Us Against the World’ by Coldplay as we slowly band together and leave the church. This was extremely good as we left the audience inside the church, while also having an emotional way of ending the show. We then showed some different scenes to year 12 students and got some feedback – this was mainly good, but they didn’t quite understand the relevance of our dances to ‘We are Broken’ but we felt this would be more clear if they had seen the rest of the performance. Today was extremely useful as we went over a lot of different scenes that we hadn’t done in a while, whist also finishing the ending of the performance and showing some scenes to an audience. Tomorrow we will start running through the performance and start making sure the smaller details are being taken care of (such as props and maybe have a look at costumes).