Blocking and Staging

We dove straight into the play and started slowly walking through it blocking as we went along. The director left the actors to make decisions about where they would place themselves when delivering their lines or when in a scene, this allowed the scenes to be more natural and instinctual , if those decisions didn't work the director would offer some input or change the positions. I haven't gone on yet as my part is later on in the play so observing the work starting to happen on the play was very interesting and answered questions that i might have asked when i got on stage.




The set is a major part of our play as it helps create two worlds, the work of the women factory workers and the world of Henry V. To help make the transition between these two worlds the pieces of props have been purposefully made or placed in our set so that they can have a double use.

For instance the tables that we use as a workstation in the factory, we use as our main stage in the play. I really like the visual of using props for two different things and think it is very clever. i also like the representation of the women using anything they can find to be transported to this world as an escape from the war and literally clinging onto anything they can find to take their minds of the devastation.

While I was off stage i did some work on my script, such as summarising the Acts and Scenes to help me get a better understanding of the play. I also paraphrased my lines so that i could understand exactly what i was saying and how i would say it.