Improv and Ensemble: Extra rehearsal 2

For todays rehearsal, the main focus was staging the play and trying to find how it would end naturally (the original idea that was touched on in the last extra rehearsal was a socialist song, but that to me didn't seem a good way to end). With bits of improvisation, we were able to think of what to say in retaliation to each other and were still able to stick to the structure of the play that we planned in the previous session very well. It took a few run throughs as, with many political debates, it got of hand and, to put it one way, we went off on one, so after a while we got back on track. It was hard to figure out where some people should go as we noticed that some had more to say than others, but we managed to shift them into the play by the fake audience (aka us) having more to say in between what the political leaders had to say. Rachel plays the representitive of those who are undecided on what wing they are and agree with policies from both Hannah, the right winger, and Laurence, the left winger. This allows for their to be more of a student voice in the audience as her character is someone appliying for university. The ending we came to was that there would be a big creshendo where many of the characters in the audience end up just arguing and storming to the representitive of the party they support, and the right wingers leaving to have a more private discussion. Tammie also plays the BNP supporter from the audience who is booed out by everyone, audience and representitives. Thansk to this extra rehearsal, we are all aware of what we need to do for the play and from now on it seems that all we need to do is to rehearse this over and over to make it more polished and slick, so it is more entertaining and engaging for the real audience.