This morning we were presented with two draft scripts of the memory play, one was the script we were using already but had been heavily cut, the other was a whole new script written by Vanessa which contained a large focus on the story of H.M without overdoing it with the brain science. Only one script would be used as as of today. After a sit-down read-through of both, the class was left alone to discuss which script we preferred. The new script won on a unanimous vote due to a stronger story-line, less head-scratching science and more space to devise more pieces, also due to the flexibility of the script each scene has the potential to take place just about anywhere in the set.
For the rest of the day we worked on roughly running through the script and blocking it to get a better idea of how the play will look. Stage positions was the main focus for most of the run-through and plotting our cues, the most memorable new idea consisted of all the characters standing in a wide circle around henry as the audience enters the theatre, each of us positioned in the chronological order of when we were alive from those dead, to those very old, to those alive and well. We have also started to play with the concept of all dead characters having a consistent theme tune played on guitar,so far we have a theme for henry and our great guitar players of the group are working on more for the other passed characters. Lastly we have an idea for a small scene with henry and the doctors with the silks which we feel haven't been used enough yet, we hope to be able to develop this with the silks on wednesday April 20th
It's safe to say the class is excited on how this new script will play out (If i have missed anything please feel free to add)
Thanks g'day much love!, Robbie aka. Monsieur Tan :-)
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