13th January

We have now finished our other unit, our devsing piece, now we have started looking at various plays we can put on. We are interested in doing two because of the amount of people in our group, we've looked at a wide variety of different styles of plays from different points in time. From students in a strict school, to 7 year olds in the countryside 

18th January Mr Webb

Today we actually looked at a really old play set in Liverpool. And it was actually made into a film quite a while back. And I've seen the film so I understood the script a lot better and what was happening. I really like this play because it shows children of around 7-11 years of age who live in the depths of Liverpool and only know concrete. And on one day they go on a school trip to a castle alongside the beach. It's quite an emotional script because the children have never seen the sea before. One child even mistakes it to a big lake 

Progress for rent

Lines are all learnt and I have all my costume except for an apron for the restaurant man. My lines are learnt. All I need to do now is work out when my costume changes are, the good thing is during the performance I stay in the same clothes but sort of change one item to sigify somebody else. For instance I wear a beanie when I'm a poor street person. Then when I'm the drug dealer I wear a coat. When I'm the priest I have a notebook. When I'm the restaurant man I also have a notepad. And I just take away the beanie when I'm the posh man and have my hair done back to look smarter. 

I feel like we need to run Santa Fe a few more times. Just to get the dance to a T. And know when to come in when we all sing. I've spent a lot of evenings concentrating on line learning and feel like we just need to do a runthrough or two to make sure it flows ok.  

Restaurant man

The restaurant man is around 26 year old. He makes his living off working at the restaurant which is 3 blocks from his flat. He barely makes a living and he gets a lot of trouble at work. He has been a waiter for 5 years and hopes to keep the job. 

So when I'm acting in the role of the restaurant man I need to be desperate when asking for the cash when the group of people forget to pay. I need to show annoyance in his voice to show how he's sick of being walked all over because his living and lifestyle depends on his job