Rehearsal Room Notes: Week 4

With the theme of Body Dysmorphic Disorder very much underway, the writers each committed their vision of an opening scene to paper, and our week 4 session was spent bringing these off the page. From interiors of the unconscious to tales of the very conscious, this gave writers an idea of how viable each setting was. A school, a retreat, an institution and hellish game shows inside patients’ heads were all ideas which were performed by the actors, and considered by everyone involved in devising the play. The devising process is very democratic, and after a long discussion afterwards it was decided that elements from each scene would be included, and that Lara Stavrinou’s scene would be edited and added to by Sam Rodney to create the first of the play. We leave with the pressing task of creating a title which and synopsis which MUST be submitted to the press department next week.