JeMeGe

So since we’ve completely finished everything, we’ve done heaps of run throughs with cash watching. We’ve strengthend a lot of scenes, included better use of tableau with reguards to the 10 commandments, and narration.

We kind of hit a wall though, as on wednesday, we realised that we dont have a alternate thought for Stalin… god! dont ask me how we over looked it… however, its lucky that this was all that we really left out so we fixed it up almost instantly.

We’ve added a good connection between the theme at the end and the start of the play… sort of gives our performance a deeper meaning.

Cash worked with us late on wednesday night trying to figure out how to use tableau… we were that delerious at that stage that we were coming up with ridiculous ideas… however we did come up with the idea that we restrict the tableau ontop of our back boxes, cut out a whole lot of my dialogue (to shorten the scene and bring the time it goes for down) and also make it more Non-naturalistic. So instead of saying the whole commandment… i omit words and say “kill”…”steal”…”adultry”… while holding a placard that says “do” and “dont” numbered and coloured. Extremely non-naturalistic, i fi dont mind saying so myself.

So wednesday was the day where we ran through our old ensemble. Thursday we fixed it all up. and Today we performed to Cashy in full costume our now “nip-and-tucked” performance. Focus was really bad, well mine was, as i tied my tie wrong and it distracted me for the next few minutes in the scene waiting until the next opportunity for me to take it off and re-tie it came. We realised, as cashy pointed out too, that our performance will either be a huge hit and go really well…or be completely opposite because we have a lot of complicated techniques involved… a lot fo syncronised movement and of course the manipulation of the ties. So its really scary actually… the fact that it all can go really well… or horrible…

One thing we ahve to work on now is ironing out all the sloppy mistakes and WORKING ON ACCENTS!!! gahh no matter how hard i try my Scottish sounds Irish!!!

So homework on the weekend… tighten everything. the thing that cashy said to us today, the tighter it gets, and the better it gets, the smallest mistake will seem huge! so we have to reduce that risk of ever happening.

Fun fact: JeMeGe are performing FIRST on thursday… thoughts on this?

excited, honoured and really really really scared,

Its all real now. Only 6 days to go!

peace out!

much love

genelle

ps. Thank you so much cashy for your help, especially over the past week, all three of us really appreciate it! cheers!

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