Heart's Desire Part 3

In the rehearsal, we found ourselves getting bored with the piece because we had blocked all of it and spent a portion of time on Thursday 'perfecting' it and getting all our transitions in with the added costume. The repetition of the piece doesn't help and thus we all felt that we'd lost our way in blocking the piece and making sure that our characters were all similar in tone and in movement/stature. In order to combat this boredom of the piece and also try and make sure that what we were doing fits with each other we decided to have a discussion about the characters within the piece and what motivates them. This discussion can be found in the following videos: 

Left out of these videos is the reasoning we gave to why Churchill wrote the piece. We suggested that the piece is to do with family tensions and how these can play out in different possibilities with the possibilities getting more and more absurd each time such as gunmen bursting in and killing all the characters. The play does focus on a social element of how different family members are treated within the family. Taking into consideration Churchill's background of feminism, its clear to see the links between how Alice is shown and talked to and feminist ideas of how women should be treated - that is equal. In this sense, Alice's involvement in the argument is at level terms with Brian's involvement. This discussion as to what the play is about will be discussed in more detail in the next blog concerning Heart's Desire which will include a conversation with Chipp and the whole group about how Brechtian the play is and what we can do to get the political/social message of the play across.