Rehearsal 13.3.14

After accidentally and rather annoyingly deleting my notes from this lesson this is roughly what we did in this rehearsal....

To begin with we carried on with the 'line' work we were exploring and decided to add our Rose Red song into the marching. Talking as a group we felt that it worked really well together as it was emotion-provoking. We then discussed how we could maybe get in a line when James (as the Guard) instructs us to after we have hugged the audience. We thought that this could possibly be a good way to begin the piece as its unexpected and attention-grabbing. 

Here is a video of this exercise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBb337Ek38
We then tried an exercise that Mandi had remembered doing at Sussex Actors Studio where someone drops to the floor and one of the 'saviours' has to lie next to them and roll them over them to get them back up. I think that this exercise was helpful because it showed the relationships between potential characters if we were doing the Auschwitz idea. 

Here is a video of this exercise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfDltEd8pWQ
We then sat down as a group and pretty much unanimously decided that we wanted to do the Auschwitz idea. We then started to talk about what sort of things could be included in it, some more context about James' true life story and mentions of scenes from the text that could be included.