Site Specific (13) - Cutting scene 3 & running scenes 1 and 2

Scene 3:   We managed to cut the first two pages of this scene and a couple more which we felt irrelevant (and wouldn't work for our performance as it contains the characters that we have already cut due to our smaller cast). We decided to change what was Corey's line to Proctor's line as both characters shared the same beliefs. We cut any sections that we felt were repetitions or not needed. Moreover, as we do not have enough girls to include Mercy, we decided that we would change these lines to be said by Betty (as she would have been in the court at this point anyway). After making our cuts and changing who says certain lines, we read through it again to ensure it all made sense.

Scene 1:   We ran the first scene in the space to add a bit of blocking to it. This was quite challenging without Chloe and Taylor (who are playing Betty and Tituba). However the people in this scene, who were supposed to interact with them, worked really well imagining the missing characters movements (whilst we read in for them). Due to cutting the character of Mercy, we edited a couple of lines at the beginning of this scene so it made more sense. We cut Mercy as we don't have enough girls and she is not essential to the plot. We worked on Proctor's entrance when he confronts Mary - we thought he could enter from behind the audience to involve them and make our use of space interesting. He would burst through the crowd to get to the scene. The set we used for today's run was one table (to act as the bed) and one chair. We agreed we wanted simplistic and minimalistic set as to not distract our audience and to keep the focus on our characters and narrative (as the language is very old-fashioned and not what our audience is used to).

Scene 2:   We had run this scene before in the space but not with everyone as their actual characters. This scene worked well with our set of one table and two chairs. We tried this with everyone speaking in RP and over-articulating. I felt that this worked quite well as it made the piece seem like it was set a lot longer ago, and it made our characters seem older - for this reason I feel like Kat and Hope can afford to be a little bit more relaxed on their articulation (as they are playing younger characters).