Today we all met in the new theatre for our first physical theatre rehearsal in over a month. We had all been busy with the Christmas break and the other common ground plays, but now we have all had our opening nights we can focus on 100 years again. We left off in a really good place last term where we had set the order of the entire show. Today all we needed to do was to recap everything we had set in place and remind ourselves of the material. This was particularly challenging with the 3 male solos as they all had to remember very specific choreographed movement which they had not performed in a while.
This rehearsal wasn't particularly challenging for the girl group as we are only in the beginning and end section of the entire piece. It was just a case of remaining focused so they could get through the material as quickly as possible. It took a while but eventually we got through all the work. I think the main thing we need to bring back to the piece is the importance of the story we are telling. We need to connect to every single character we are playing with as much emotion and depth as we have been for the other plays we are in during common ground. People need to realise that this piece is now just as important as the other plays and we should all start taking our role within it more seriously. On top of that we need to remind ourselves of the significance of the stimulus we are working with and the history of world war one and the legacy these books and poems and memoirs have. Our piece is just one of many other artistic and historical celebrations which will be happening over the course of the next 4 years to mark 100 years since world war 1 and we should all take a minute to realise how special that is.
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