Friday and Saturday

Sorry for the delay in posting, Suzanne and I have moved digs, and whilst we are now in a great place, we no longer have internet at home, so we're frantically posting all of the blogs for the last few days while we have a spare moment (thankyou cafe nero...)

Friday

Teching and running sections - Today has been essentially more of the same, running what we have already done, cementing the blocking and sequences that we have already done. However, we have also finally properly blocked the final section of the show. Obviously it's very good for us to have an idea of how the piece as a whole goes, however the constraints of preparing a show in a week are beginning to show. Whilst we are on track with our lines and blocking, and have enough time to put together a show, considering the nature of the piece we are performing, it is slightly frustrating that we haven't had more time. We have been teching the show as we rehearse it from essentially the second day, which is efficient in terms of time management, but I feel like there needs to be more time spent on the actual cognitive aspects of the performance. We need to try to make the show engaging for school children who have been dragged to see a performance about a subject that, chances are, they aren't too fond of, and I feel that to achieve that it would take more time than we have had. BUT, that is not to say we shouldn't be proud of what we've made.

Saturday

Today we have started running the show in sections. It devides neatly into four sections, each between 10 and 12 pages long, so today has been very useful. We can now see how the show flows, and how it works with lighting and sound. We have run each section twice. First just to acclimatise to the tech and blocking on the stage and with props, then we are given notes for that section and proceed to run it again, doing our best to action the notes that we have been given. It is good to see that we can run the individual sections (or at least sections one, two and three as we have not had time to run section four) and to have an opportunity to play with moments of the show. It will be tight, but I do feel like we will be ready to perform on Tuesday.