Rehearsal Room Notes: Week 6

Patterns of Grace and the first draft of scenes 1-5!

Rehearsals started this week with a read through of the first 5 scenes followed by a brief discussion and feedback. Really great work was produced and a many impressed and excited face was to bee seen amongst the Heat&Light members. However, one question remained in our minds from scene 5’s life model class. With very little exposed. a painting unseen by the audience causes Grace a lot of distress. But what was painted? The question was asked by all.

Overall really interesting characters are now starting to blossom and a complete structure of the whole play has now been confirmed. However while we have a great first draft of the first half of the play Alexis went off to discuss with the writers about what changes could be made for draft 2. During this the cast and crew were given a breakdown for scenes 6, 7 and 8 and then split up to work on devising them. A key thing that came from the rehearsal this week was making sure each scene and each character had a direction. With this in mind everyone discussed and decided what each character wanted out of that scene, how they started and how they ended and what would actually be accomplished by the end of the scene.

When the writers returned they circulated around all the groups jotting down interesting ideas that had come out of this devising process. At the end of the rehearsal they were then sent off to work on rewriting scenes 1-5 and put together a first draft of the last 4 scenes.

With questions still on our minds about what was in that painting we were set homework to draw. Yes, draw! With the exceptions of the writers, who already have enough work to do, the remaining Heat&Light members have to bring in for next week a drawing/painting of what they think was on that canvas.

Exciting times at Heat&Light always and hopefully by next week we may even be able to post some of the fabulous artwork up.

Until next time...