We’re all starting to feel very excited here at Fill In The Blank Theatre. We’ve nearly got a full show and we’re currently developing the new bits. We’re in the process of creating a props scene with Alice D. as the wife and all of the other cast jumping in and out of the scene manipulating the props. At the minute we only have about a minute and a half of this scene so our goal for the next two weeks is to extend that scene as well as re-structuring the second props scene with all of the wives telling different stories and remembering different moments the couple has shared. In this scene we’ve been playing with different ways to have all of the wives on stage without it looking to messy, the strength in this scene is in the simplicity of the moment and so we want to avoid over complicating it.
It was also learned in the past two weeks that in a scene to signify the wife leaving Rachel will perform a dance solo. I think this is a great idea because so far Rachel hasn’t really had the chance to show off her strengths on stage so I feel that as long as all of the character’s intentions are clear having a dance solo is great! So really we’ve just been polishing bits that we already have set in these past two weeks, we also added an ‘argument’ scene onto the end of the ribbon sequence with Michael now speaking over the dialogue. My concern for this scene is that the audience may not understand the ribbon sequence because at the minute we don’t have a transition into the scene, this is because we’re not yet sure where in the piece it would work best so we can’t completely plan the transition. The good news is that our director is fantastic so I’m sure he’s got a plan!
Our tech is in two weeks so the main priority is to make sure we have a fully coherent running order and a finished piece so that Alice S, Naomi and Michael C. can get all of their lighting, sound and projection cues in order before the tech. I know Alice is planning to have all of the sound already programmed to save time in the tech so that there is more time to focus and programme all the lights.
Here is the updated version of my doctor text, there are two here and it just shows you the progression of the text in the last two weeks!
The longer file is the final version of the text: during the pauses at the start the various wives stand up an leave the stage.
The second file is the second draft. You can see how it has changed a lot from the original draft.
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