Lesson 5

Rehersals, this lesson we were rehersing our short play and timed it, i think the approximate time of our play was 7mins. By this time we had learnt our lines at home and we were running through with the layout sorted, it was all about getting into the minds of our charicters and thinking about costume changes and how to show the change of set.
I decided i will simply change hats and take off my jacket, pull out a cloth and place one over my shoulder to show a change in my clothing and also to show where i work by mis-en scene and props.

lesson 4

In lesson 4 we read through the scripts and decided as a full group that the scenes we chose were not the best scenes to show off our dramatic acting skills therfore we decided to change the second scene to the bar scene where eddie is the waitor (me) this scene was quite short but yet we thought it would allow us to show a strong charicter change. We started to read through this scene as a group and then plan the staging for it.

Road part 2 research

The nation endured a deep recession throughout 1982. Business bankruptcies rose 50 percent over the previous year. Farmers were especially hard hit, as agricultural exports declined, crop prices fell, and interest rates rose. But while the medicine of a sharp slowdown was hard to swallow, it did break the destructive cycle in which the economy had been caught. By 1983, inflation had eased, the economy had rebounded, and the United States  began a sustained period of economic growth. The annual inflation rate remained under 5 percent throughout most of the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Lesson 3

Lesson 3 we had a read through of te script togeather and double checked that these were the scenes we wanted to do, we were quite sure that they were the right scenes to play, although there was a twist in the fact that i would have to play a women. Depending on the leval of detail, we may have to alter the scene or change it. This was a problem to me as i realy do not feel comfitable having to go into drag.
We then decided our roles for the play IF we were to continue with this path.
Carol - Emma
Brenda - Molly
Louise - Me (Alex)
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Proffessor - Me (Alex)
Laine - Molly

Lesson 2

Lesson 2, we had emma to join our group this lesson and we had to introduce the play to her and help her through what it is about, we then had to deside on what scenes in the play we are going to do, we chose to do the 2 scenes instead of 1 as they are quite choppy and short. We chose to do pages 5-7 & 12-13 we then wrote up a short essay about what the play is about and what we plan to do with it, mollie mainly wrote this as i was helping emma with the play, we then joined at the end and showed what we had got through. I feel asif we could organise the play and get it done for just after half term, next lesson we were to deside on a performance date and our rehersal plans.

Road part 1 research

Lesson 1

we were introduced to our topic of Jim Cartwright plays, We had the option of doing the play 'two' or the play 'road' We had to take into concidoration that experiences from previouse years, e.g. i had done the play 'two' in year 11 as my exam piece therfore there was no need for me to do it all again, I was placed on the play 'road'. Louise has been away previouse to this lesson and still remained absent so therfore purdy and theo were chosen to do'two' and me emma and mollie were doing road. Emma was away for the 1st lesson we were doing a read through, so me and mollie went away into the small room so that we could read through the play and get idea of what we had to perform. This helped as i got a favrouite charicter in mind strait from his 1st line (scullery) he is abit of a peado and trys to chat up all the women. this is quite funny and made me smile as some of the sayings he comes up with are... lets say origional.
After reading through we were told that we were to go away and prepare for a performance in a couple of weeks time. So i cracked on with the research.


Road