Tuesday 9th May
To start the lesson we talked about how much more work we need to be doing within the next couple of weeks. We don’t have many sessions left until the show and we still have quite a lot to do in such a short space of time. We then all looked at the scripted scenes which Alys had sent us during the week. We read through these together, reading out our own parts.
We then set the stage up and started practicing through the scenes. The main focus this week was to make sure that we all knew what scenes we were in and to work on the scenes which haven’t had much development yet. These scenes include the pet shop scene and the shop lifting scene.
Callum is the main feature within the pet shop scene and Angel is also featured in it as she plays the shop assistant. Therefore, Angel and Callum spent some time working together to practice through and script the pet shop scene. Me, Emily and Danielle were able to watch the scene and suggest possible ideas that we may have had which would help to improve the scene.
We then moved on to look at the shop lifting scene. This scene sees Emily shop lifting from a shop where me, Callum and Angel act as manikins and Danielle as the shop assistant. However, we have recently come up with an idea that the main character which the scene is focused around (for example Emily in the shop lifting scene) has to stay within the lift. The lift will be marked out with masking tape on the floor. This then relates back to our theme of confinement. Therefore, it would make it difficult if me, Callum and Angel were all in the scene. Therefore, we decided that Callum would act as a personal shopper to Emily and Danielle would carry on being the shop assistant.
After a short break, we then spoke about my monologue that I have been struggling to write. Because my character has Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), I have to write 2 separate monologues – one for each personality. Then, we can decide if the monologues are going to be combined kept separate. If they are not combined then they will said at different points in the show when I changed personalities. Therefore my target for this week is to write these 2 monologues and send them to Alys before next week’s session.
For the rest of the session we worked on the stuck in the lift scene. We looked for sound effects of a lift breaking down and then this would give us a cue to start the scene. The scene is going to be in the dark and only during certain moments, the lights will come up and we’ll be in different positions. We improvised this scene a few times and thought of a few lines which we then noted down. Alys would then type up these lines and send them to us so we can start to learn them.
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