Workshop (20) - A Little Priest & Johanna

Johanna:   Whilst Dan, Rob and I were working on "A Little Priest", Tom, Ollie and Lewis worked on "Johanna". They worked on their staging and attempted it in a couple of ways before coming up with their final way, the version they filmed. They worked on their characterisation to make Beadle come across as really creepy and to make the audience feel sorry for Anthony.

A Little Priest:   

• Dance section:   We experimented on what we could do in a dance break. We tried doing a Waltz, but Rob isn't exactly a dancer! We then tried to do more of a slow dance, but this didn't really work well with the song, as it was too romantic, when they are supposed to be having a laugh and being excited. We therefore tried holding hands and doing a little swing from side to side while singing to each other - we thought that this worked better than the slow dance as it fit with the piece, looked good and conveyed the right sort of feeling. However, we do have a couple of dance breaks - we didn't want each dance break to be the same, so we decided that on one of them we would Waltz, as when it is done right it would work really well for this song - this means we have a lot of practice to do!
• The Ending:   Originally, we had the ending where we would do the kicks with Dan and then we would drop him and walk forwards and sing out. However, we wanted to do something that would should how sadistic our character are - we tried having us sing to each other and then out to the audience, ending with us putting a foot each on the dead Dan - however, we thought we could be more cynical. We finally decided on us dropping him, me walking over to the counter and picking up a butcher's knife - I would then hold it in the air over Dan and Todd and I would smile at each other. We would then end on a black out here.