5.6. Run of scenes 1-6

Today we ran the first part of the show, up to we are having the interval. Here are some of the notes that we got:

• Prologue
• Gests improving, we need go even further!
• When Ui's are introduced, the Gests feel sticky and so it needs to be changed to something more smoother. 
• Everyone doesn't seem to know the dance routine, so it needs running
• Lines need to be said snappier so that the poem becomes smoother and not as choppy
• Could Dogsborough catch his stick, since he won't have it during the dance? 
• Scene 1
• In the beginning when we are doing the Gests, we need to keep them up a lot longer and keep them alive, rather than just posing. We need to keep the energy up!
• Higher state of tension is needed, since the vegetable dealers are worrying about their businesses
• Some lines like "Dogsboroughs shoes" should be directed towards the audience and shown even more cheesy
• Briefcase for Sophia
• Sophia and Heta more closer together
• Scene 2
• Important that we see Dogsboroughs thought process, so Harry needs to keep his eyes up
• We also need to see Dogsborough is corrupt
• More interacting with the environment, use imagination to create house around you e.g. look out of windows
• Scene 3
• Sophia cannot be visibly drinking, since it is a public place
• Newspaper people need to be listening to the radio to create the scene at the bookie's office. 
• There is supposed to be fighting between Ragg and Ui, since Roma comes to separate them.
• Scene 4
• Ui needs to build up emotions, since he is basically acting like a child in this scene and then lead in to him threatening Dogsborough
• Harry needs to react as Dogsborough
• Scene 5
• Yunusa needs to remember hitting Max as bodyguard from time to time to get support. 
• Harry needs show that Dogsborough is scared 
• Needs a transitions of Ui's
• Scene 6
•  Great potential
• Ui's mimicking walk is too over the top, as if looking for laughs. This could be perhaps more stiff and turned down, since the scene doesn't need it to be too over the top.
• Bodyguards need react to the actor in the background

  Next we need to focus on transitions and really working them out, so that the whole show can be smoother. I also want to work on the beginning Gests, since mine weren't as strong as they could have been, but I could easily make them more clear and keep them up longer. As UiI really need to find a more toned down way of mimicking the walking.

During extra rehearsals some of us set out to identify which transitions still need work and what kind of transitions we want for each scene. We also worked out transitions for scene 3 and Ui's transition between scene 10 and 11.Coming from scene 2 to 3 we decided to have the newspaper people come in to the song 'We're in the money', put the blocks into place and set up the bookie's office by looking  at the nespapers ans pretend to pick out a horse and bet on it between them. Then, Ragg could come in to shoo us away from the counter we just created and start the scene. 

For Max's and Liam's transition we played around with mimicking and a game of call and response, having Max do movements and Liam following them. This would have Max put on Liam's mustache for him and exit the stage, showing the audience that Liam is the new Ui.