The Saturday before the performance was a full day rehearsal and it really started to come together. The Boy and The Drummer seemed to finally get there lines (just about - they did miss out a chunk by accident in our performance to Monsieur Chipp) and as always Caitlin was great. One problem: me. In my defence, I didn't feel that me and Isabel, 'The Singer' had been directed fully and so wasn't really confident in what Jermaine wanted us to do, hadn't gone through the character thoroughly with him so didn't really know what he wanted from my character apart from someone who breaks the tension. However, this doesn't really cover the main problem which was our lack of a large reaction to the Drummer headlocking The Boy.
On the Tuesday night rehearsal, the day before the performance, we went through this scene and decided the best answer was to use improvisation and basically make a lot of protesting noise at The Drummer's actions and not be afraid of using our faces more. The result I junk worked pretty well and definitely made me feel more confident and comfortable (ironically considering the situation) in my role in that section. It also made me look forward to the performance a lot more as I began to believe we could really pull this off.
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