Rehearsal Room Notes: Week 5

We begin week 5 with a performance of actors' monologues; some have been developed from last time, others are cheekily made up on the spot - regardless of this the standard of all of them is extremely high!

After this, Alexis Zegerman leads us through an invaluable character workshop. By considering the objects, sentimental and practical that a character might own we are able to gain greater access to a whole psyche, rather than just a brief situational description of the character.

Armed with a bony skeleton of a synopsis, writers and actors and non-acting cast members are split into groups to devise scenes for the rest of the play. This is the first time that we do not perform the day’s work to each other since we began. Today the actors and non-writing cast members are working solely as a canvas for the writers to experiment with. As a result of this any books were thrown, and biscuits were eaten. The evening finished on a super high glucose surf - I think many of us will agree that this was possibly not the best moment to have been let 'outside' among the normal people!