Temple Manor has now got back to us and said that we are unable to use this location on the date we desired. Therefore, we are changing our venue to St Margaret's Church, who are very happy to accommodate us in terms of looking around the venue and our actual performance. Although our actual performance shall be in a different venue, our piece is still site-specific for Temple Manor (as we chose our play and style after researching the venue) but we shall work out our entrances and exits for this venue. https://rainhamchurch.wordpress.com/This link is to a video of a virtual tour of the church: https://rainhamchurch.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/virtual-tour.mp4. Some of our class visited the church in their free lessons to meet the staff and parish, and to look round the venue to work out where we could perform what. Thankfully the church has a lot of land outside so we are still able to do
our opening piece outside before bringing the audience inside. We shall do our court scene in the church in the traverse seating (1:52 of the virtual tour) with our audience on either sides.
The benefits of this venue include the fact that there is a lot of parking, there are toilets next door in the pub as well, and that lighting and sound isn't an issue. It is also very spacious and has a lot of potential locations for each of our scenes.
Recently, we have been doing full runs of our version of the play. We have been working a lot on eye contact, as our audience is hopefully going to be in close proximity to us to create a strong actor-audience relationship - we want our piece to be immersive. Although we are not sure on our entrance and exit points yet, we decided that we wanted Proctor's line in Scene One, "Be you foolish Mary Warren?!" to be spoken as he barges his way through the audience to get to her - this will help build the immersive theatre experience.
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