Rehearsal

WE'VE BLOCKED THE WHOLE PLAY *fist pump*

So the blocking is going very well and I'm particularly enjoying the scene where Major Ross comes into the rehearsal and ruins everything AND breaks the news that Liz Morden will be hung. I think that the energy and characterisation in this scene is so strong, particularly Tian who really makes you hate his character for being such a killjoy. His accent in coming along very well and he plays the pauses and tension. This scene is quite an important one too because it exposes the convicts and makes us feel sorry for them. We truly see that they're not the bad people here, the officers are. The play doesn't have any scenes of what they endured on the ship either but we get a taste of it in this scene and watching the humiliation is painful. When the other convicts run their lines in order to save Mary from revealing an extremely personal tattoo, relationships come to surface and we see that even though they do cuss each other and have attitudes a lot, they have each other's backs. It's very sweet.

However, Sarah says we still need to work harder and we should. Though we've blocked the whole play and are starting to add details, we need to pick at those details but still do our own research outside rehearsals to help development.