Practicing & Polishing - 02/06 /10/14

In both of these Theatre sessions, our aim was to start perfecting each of our scenes in the play and to rehearse it all the way through without any interruptions. In Ms Lee's session, we read through the script, went through many of the scenes and wrote up targets for ourselves. In Mr Crowther's, we rehearsed our scenes, gave feedback to one another and devised another scene to begin the play with. Half of the class are all together standing tightly in the middle of the room. We create a different action for each side we turn to. The first is a look of disgust, the second is a punch in the air, the third is crossing our arms and the last position is reaching out using our arms. Then, the other half of the class walk into the room and the 'pack' separates. We start chanting things like 'Blankers Out' and 'No Blankers in our school'. After this, Amaia screams 'Stop - You're all behaving like animals'. At this point, the rest of the class sit down at either side of the traverse stage. I think this is great as an opening scene as there is a lot of tension created and it shows what the play is based around, with the look of a protest going on and a large divide between two groups. It also intrigues the audience to want to know more about what is going on.