We began by discussing what location we are in at this point. We decided we are in a new reality. Earlier in the play, Winston mentions a picture of some people in a café that he thought he had unpersoned. So we then considered if this café was a sort of purgatory - which lead us to question whether Winston is alive or not. We decided that we would leave this question unanswered as the people in Book Club would not all share the same opinion.
The waitress and Julia are supposed to be played by the same actress, but because there are too many girls in our class, the waitress and Julia are different people. However, to present them as the same character, we shall have Julia on stage at the same time. Also, Hope and Rhiannon shall say the line "I betrayed you" in unison to show they are the same. In addition, when Hope says "Do it to...", she looks at Rhiannon, as Winston did shout "DO IT TO JULIA" on the previous page.
The very last section is set in Book Club, so whilst I am sitting on my chair at the back saying my monologue (having entered as Hope says "I was just asking if you were feeling unwell"), everyone else enters to set up and sit in Book Club positions.
We realised that the present is at least 2084 due to the line "because that was over a hundred years ago". We then discussed how we would show this. We discussed that for Book Club we could either use books, iPads, Kindles or image holograms. We thought that holograms could be too complicated and would not be clear enough for the audience to understand. With the iPads and Kindles idea, we could have a stand on the table in the middle saying "Book of the week: 1984", to make it clear. However we decided on books in the end as it is really clear to the audience what is going on.
We decided that once I have finished my final monologue, we would all look up to the ceiling (to show that everyone is deep in thought and is quite shocked), whilst Winston would look at O'Brien and said "thank you".
