Director's Challenge - Part 19 - First Rehearsal

Due to the Y11s in our cast having their GCSE practise performance on Wednesday night, we were without a majority of our cast and thus had to change our aforementioned plan. Instead of focusing on Leah's monologue and all the cast in Scene 3, we went over 2 of the Jan and Mark specific scenes - Scene 1 and Scene 3 part 3.

We had 3 cast members turn up - Megan, Ollie, and Grace and with them, we explained the plot, the set, and played a game of Ninja to get energy levels up and to bring more enjoyment to the group dynamic. I got contact details from all those present and have set up a Wattsapp group chat for directing; when I have everyone on the group chat I will post evidence of it on my blog and any communication made will also be posted. We let Grace (who plays Rachel/Richard) go home as she wasn't needed and proceeded with the aforementioned Jan and Mark scenes. With Megan and Ollie, we read through their sections of the script including Scene 3 part 1 as that has a large amount of Jan and Mark involvement.

The following video is an attempt at Scene 1:

The following video is an attempt at part of Scene 3 part 3:

The following video is an analysis of the above 2 videos:

Next week, Imogen and I plan to rehearse the scenes that we were going to do in our first rehearsal. However, we may have to do this on Tuesday night because of the Y11's final GCSE drama piece and thus the plan may change because of commitments of other students. This is something I will message Imogen about and we will discuss the plan from there. This is a severe hindrance because we won't have been able to block the whole play by half term as we would have liked thus putting us behind in our plan.