Today was our first ever run through, I believe it went well considering and we got through a fair amount of work, I was given the character of Lucy, an innocent young girl who lives with her elder sister Mena, Lucy has obviously been molycoddled her through the entirety of her life and it shows, she is 19 years old and still skipping about singing rhymes like "Who shall I marry, Tom, Dick or Harry?" Something you would see a 6 year old do, not an nineteen year old.
Andy had an idea that throughout the perfomances, that everybody was to stay on stage whether they were speaking or not, which actually worked out very well, he used the people who aren't saying anything to act as the people of Bedlam who are meant to act 1930's idea of insane, this gives off such a great atmosphere for each scene, and you can see the interaction between every character on stage as whenever Lucy or Mena, in the first scene, says something, the bedlam people will interact with an evil laughter especially if it were an innuendo. There is clearly a lot of symbolism going on through the play.
Younis then came up with the idea of using mirror image, we used the future Lucy as someone in which I am to look at as if she were my mirror image. We went over which arms to use and in the beginning it was very difficult but we got there in the end. The scene on a whole was looking miles better, Lucy's imitation of me was great and made for a better performance.
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