In this session, we had our first look at the script as a whole which revealed how the play was set all in one scene, with the characters and action centering around the boy who entered in the first entrance and stayed until the last. It also felt like the play was split into four sections with the girl and the boy at the start, then the argument between the boy and the drummer, diffused slightly by the singer and the bass player in the next, and ending with the girl and the boy again.
For the first hour we looked at a scene involving 4/5 of the cast: the singer and bass player enter the rehearsal space following an extremely heated argument. At first, accessing the odd layout of the script and the situation as the bass player proved to be quite tricky especially when I first enter as I feel quite trapped and stationary in the corner. However, the scene seemed to start flowing a bit more as we began to get our heads around the text and the staging, moving and interacting with the characters. I liked Jermaine's decision to place the singer and the bass player so that they physically and figuratively diffused the tension slightly through being positioned between the two. This rehearsal definitely allowed me to understand both my character and the script we're working with a lot more.
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