Week of Rehearsals 2nd-6th of June

We are working on mainly act 2 still; we looked at the runners scene again but we wanted to change it as it was overly complicated and a little unneeded as it’s the runners job to run around not people on the floor. For now we have settled on the two runners running round the apron with their notes in their hand.

There was also a long discussion about if we should include the well-known song "Danny Boy" in the play, there were worries it might be too cheesy or what is the need to add it in, I believe because Lucy the MD wanted to add it as she likes the song but the reason why we need it wasn’t mentioned so we decided to just have it hummed over one of Haig’s monologues.

We looked at a scene in which soldiers go over the top of their trench to fight. We choreographed were three of us go up including myself die and three others hide behind them for shelter while they shout over the sound of gun fires. Henry came up with a clever idea saying how a sewing machine makes a similar sound to a machine gun, the idea was the have a sewing machine behind the screen having two people controlling it and the soldiers reacting. 

We also came up with a dance for "the bells of hell" with me, Conor, Henry, Sam and felix. The idea was to copy The skeleton dance, its really simple and a little silly but it goes with the song. Ellen did try to help but it made us all a little frustrated as we didnt hear any good constructed criticism but its all done and it links into the next scene as we all finished dean on each other. 

There was also some progress made on the sister Susie scene, as I was trying to get the book ready before three for Jim, I was unable to participate as much  as I could but I was able to watch and saying my lines. I like what Ellen and Lucy are coming up with and I thank them for doing it.