In today's lesson we taught Ollie what he had missed in the previous lesson. We also walked through the ending scene. We found this quite challenging as we are so used to the opening, so doing this backwards felt rather strange. However, the ending does look really effective now.
We then ran through the entire piece. We altered sections that we thought needed to be altered as we went along. We decided that we shall have the chairs positioned SL and SR facing inwards. When we are not performing we shall sit on these chairs and watch the performance. We have decided to do this instead of facing out as it symbolises how many people may see domestic violence but do nothing about it. We also decided that abusers should sit SL and victims SR, as this is where we finish the opening scene, but also to make it clearer to the audience. To keep continuity, we had to leave these chairs to begin our duet/group sections and then return to them. To be able to do this, we had to alter our entrances and exits.
Moreover, Lewis and I ran our duet section twice: once to see if there were any mistakes and once to perfect it. The first time round we realised that we had forgotten our speech and a little bit of our beginning section. Therefore we quickly recapped this and then ran it again.
Afterwards, we all agreed that we would cut out the facts at the beginning the reason for this is that when we came to reverse the scene at the end, it wouldn't make sense.
