Today we finished talking about what happens in the play and in the scenes specifically. I think the main thing I have and some of the others have gained from this is clarification what is going on with the vegetable dealers loan and Dogsboroughs relation ship with that. We discussed this last time as well, but now as we go trough the play more in detail, we have really got how Dogsborough has actually fooled the dealers by giving a loan to a business he already owned. Here are some ideas we came up or the scenes:
- We talked about scene 5 and how to create a city hall mood for the scene. We talked a little how being organized, separating reporters with the speech men or example putting Dogsborough and others higher on the stage, perhaps in an organized lines, and let the reporters be a little more frantic lower.
- Scene six is set in a hotel room. We could show this with either change o sets, Max suggested making furniture out of cardboard. Another way would be receiving room service to the room, for example.
- To make scene seven look like an office, we thought we could use filing cabinets and perhaps a door with a glass window saying 'office' on it. The audience could also be a part of the crown in a way, having actors be in the audience or in front of it. There is also a part that has a bodyguard singing a song, not specified, but something about home and homeland. Siou used "Tomorrow belongs to me" from Sound of Music as an example. I thought o the song "This is my song", which is the English version of the song Finlandia. I have sung this before for choir and as a solo and I found two versions of this song that I have put videos of here. The song was originally written in Finnish by Jean Sibelius in 1899. The version by Lloyd Stone was written in the preriod between WW1 and WW2, which would perfectly fit with our plays time period(if we decide to set it in the 1930's). I sung the song originally in Finnish ans the 'We would be one', but this version of Stone's its better with the scene and what the play is about. The song mentions home and ''my country", talking about how wonderful our nation is. This is the kind of song that the Natzis could have used to get people on their side, by telling how they are nationalistic and protecting their beautiful culture from 'the evil' aka Jewish people.
- Scene eight is the warehouse fire trial, and since it has multiple sections, it should be very ast paced and even choreographed, like dance. This would bring a stylistic feature to the scene, making it more fun to watch and flow better
- Scene nine is mixed in two parts, a having a blood splattered woman lame Ui or shooting her and her husband, who is still in the burning car and asking or help. Part b is Dogsborough writing his last confession in a letter. I thought it could be clever and look good to have these two scenes intertwined, both happening at the same time, but in separate locations.
I kind of missed out on the discussion o the other scenes, since I started to work on the detailed rehearsal schedule with Sophie. We got both Tuesday and Thursday afternoons as extra for us, which will be helpful, and so we took them into consideration as well. Here are pictures of the schedule.
I've finally looked into some 1930's music we could possibly use in our show, as an inspiration or actually in the show. I have noticed that a lot o the music was fast paced, energetic and happy. I have in the past looked into 1930's movies, and how the movie industry blew up during that time, probably because off the depression. People were unhappy and needed an escape from their real lives, so they went to watch movies or listen to music, so they were made happy to keep the people happy as well. This is why jazz, especially swing jazz became extremely popular.
I also found this simple but fun song by Parov Stelar , who remixed old songs. This could a twist to the play, giving it a modern touch with the music.
Next class, on Friday, we will start working on the Prologue, and I want to brainstorm some ideas here before the class. I will aim to do this before every rehearsal, to aid me with self reflective writing, this way I can view my ideas and after each lesson and talk about which ones worked and which ones didn't, and why.
Ideas for Prologue
- Everyone works as the Announcer together. As an organized crowd everyone could either say the announcement in unison or separately.
- We could include some dance or movement into, it could be interesting to have each off the characters to stand out from the crowd in neutral by starting to dance or move in the way the character would, showing their gets for example.
- The whole prologue is like a song, people in organized lines each come forward to sing the announcing song, when introducing characters they would do their gest.
- The announcers would be cabaret girls, fancy clothes and dancing, having the opening monologue as a performance.
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