Sunday 2nd July

Nerds that we are, our group decided to meet outside of school to 1. pick up a costume from the high class retailers, Primark, and 2. rehearse in our newly purchased costumes. Not even yet met up and disaster struck… I couldn't meet them in town!

So a simple solution was drawn up where they would just buy mine and I'd pay them back. Sorted.

After some very nice flapjack and a visit from Hannah's mum exclaiming about a baby ladybird she had discovered in the garden, we got to work in Hannah's sitting room (surrounded by her embarrassing family photos he…he…heeee). Must admit, not wholly comfortable with the costume, for one, it's probably the most feminine thing I've worn all year, and it is a little revealing for my tastes, displays my gorgeous tan lines and just doesn't sit well with me. However, the combined effect of all four of us wearing the exact same outfit in my opinion made it all the more effective especially in portraying the idea of a single entity with multiple personality traits.

The only problems found with the costume was that the flimsy cheap socks began to tear as we moved around in them, and due to the smooth material, at the point where I lift Caitlin and she wraps her legs around my waist and leans back acting as the 'penis' to Charlotte's bellybutton, she began to slip a little. We quickly adapted to this situation I think by just being a bit more firm in our hold, a little less vigorous with the thrusting. Other than that (and general uneasiness) the costumes were fine and fit the bill.

With the costumes successful and all fitting adequately, we began our rehearsal. We began to slowly run through it, looking at places to iron-out faults pointed out at the last Wednesday rehearsal, such as rising with more purpose and in-sync, working on my "STOP! That really shocked him." and most importantly, diction.  The main problem with this rehearsal was the lack of head space especially with Hannah's chandelier-like light, and the small replacement for the riser, plus feeling a little self-conscious with Hannah's mum nearby and the nature of our play so speaking the lines with a little less volume or passion.

We spent a while on the section which had caused a momentary pause on Wednesday. It was after my line of "Oh it was awful! So was the hundredth time come to that." followed by Hannah's "Find out?" Questioned to the other person in the conversation. This was awkward because as a group we kept forgetting to lean forward in acknowledgement of the imaginary person in the conversation, so we tried to work out a way for either all of us to remember a simple movement after "hundredth time come to that" or to just have Hannah acknowledging and questioning seeing as it's her line following. In the end we decided to have Hannah going "hmm?" and us just putting on confused expressions as she says this (this was after a number of trial and errors including us all in-sync tilting our heads and going "hmmm?" which resulted in an impromptu canon performance).

After ironing out a few moments where we can move or get up in sync, we did another full run without stopping which went very smoothly and was a positive start to the week of the performance. I think we'll kill the performance and bury the body…

Had to stop after the last run else I'd miss my train.