Rest Of The Lessons And Build-Up Of Our Show

For the rest of the lessons we have been creating and rehearsing our show. It's been pretty much the same thing each week but we've added more things and slowly introduced the order to our friends from certitude so that it's not all thrown on them too suddenly.
An idea that will be a constant in the play is Ian's pub of dreams. In this, he "pours you a dream" and when you drink it, you get whisked off to your dream, or in the case of the show, the different performances. The ideas that are being used in the piece are:

• Matthew's song: Matthew is a keen singer and at the end of one of our sessions he sung us two of his songs. One of them was about his mother and the other was about his dream of becoming a successful singer and the second song was taken by some people of musical theatre and they worked with Matthew and the pianist to rebuild the song with a backing track, harmonies and a bit at the beginning where Matthew danced to the intro of his song. He's a very talented and nimble dancer and he loves dancing, so it's good to see him enjoying himself
• Broadway: Dance worked with Lisa and Francis to create a short and simple dance routine with them as one of their dreams was to be a Broadway dancer. When the routine had finished, there was an instrumental where they all got into a semi-circle and had a dance-off. Lisa really enjoyed this bit and smiled all the way through it whilst Francis was shy but he was comfortable doing it
• Beauty and the Beast: This was something that us in theatre created with Ciaran and Esslar. Ciaran (who played the beast thus getting a peck from Belle at the end) began by directing it and having it precisely how he wanted it, but his directions were sometimes unclear and changed a lot. So we made a storyboard of the whole thing and ended up having to change a few things so the story made more sense, much to Ciaran's dismay. As we ran the whole play in rehearsals, he would get confused and frustrated as to why we weren't doing beauty and the beast and why we weren't being wolves or teacups or why Amaya wasn't being Belle. He soon understood why and even though we changed our section, he didn't hesitate to make it his own.
• Sea and Space: These were environments that we created by changing our physicalities, making noises appropriate to the environment, using props and exploring the audience to make them feel like they're part of the piece.