Merry Christmas

Hello all, hope you are having a wonderful christmas break and i'd like to wish you a very happy new year. Looking forward to getting our show together.
Remember first day back thursday 5th January.
I hope your unit 2 work is going well.
Also remember short reports for unit 3 not due in now till after our show. Base them on how a practitioner of your choice has influenced the rehearsal process and show. Your experience in workshops and rehearsals in using that practitioner needs to be informed by relevant reading.

Enjoy the break and happy new year!

Blocking- as of 2/12/11

Entrance- pair motifs from Sarah’s sessions; press-up, slap etc.
Unit 1- Vaginas. Are we having trolley? Those who are not in this scene get ready for unit 2, with chairs for the pairs.
Unit 2- Alex and Grace find a way to move out of the vaginas on the queue line ‘Pooosh!’ from previous scene. Grace pushes Alex to the front of stage.
Unit 3- George, Nicole, Shaun, Yiannis and Bronya stand in a line representing the opposite of the game that Pig and Runt represent in this scene. Hania and Samantha run around them, and on the word ‘kingdom’ from Pig, queue making the throne.
Unit 4- Hania acts as the bus stop. Paige performs speech downstage and it moves into the fight scene; Alastair, Yiannis, Alex, Steve?
Unit 5- CUT.
Unit 6- ‘Just me’, we all enter slow motion dancing until ‘leave the soul’, which queues dancing normally. George, Nicole and Alex position ourselves for unit 7 at the end of the scene.
Unit 7- Shaun pushes George over on the line ‘height of fashion’ from Lucy, we all freeze. Unfreeze then freeze again on Lucy’s line, ‘he needs Runt’s style help’, which is where Alex is used. Unfreeze again, then freeze again on the line from Lucy: ‘I’m your mummy!’. When Lucy drops Nicole, we all unfreeze. Also within this scene, there is the book reading and the ‘mums and dads’ motif.
Unit 8- George moves into the scene from upstage out from behind Shaun, who is exiting from Unit 7. Nicole and Lucy are stood on chairs and Steve is downstage left. Fight occurs, then Nicole and George exit stage left.
Unit 9- Yiannis and Gwen monologue. Chip shop? Has Vanessa developed it? Samantha and Hania enter as babies, Shaun and Alex enter as toddlers (does this need to be changed to a Pig and a Runt?) and Bronya and George enter as teenagers. They all exit on ‘I dunno’. What are the queue lines for each pair entering?
Unit 10- Chair motifs on ‘Up, up, up, up, up!’, where the Pigs copy Sherie. Then the taxi is made at the end of the scene, with the sound effect from Lucy.
Unit 11- Sam and Catia. They sit in the taxi whilst the taxi moves in synchronisation. Alastair plays Pig’s mother stage right, he moon walks.
Unit 12- Stacey and Yiannis centre stage. Sound scapes?
Unit 13- same as above.
Unit 14- Hania and Samantha, Baywatch scene. Running across alternate sides of the stage as David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson? Needs work to involve more of the cast.
Unit 15- Shaun’s sex monologue. Sex positions? Chips?
Unit 16- Entertainment! Musical number! Waltzing and tap dancing etc.. Transition into unit 17 at the end. Sherie and Sophie are downstage.
Unit 17- Steve and Bronya, Provo pub. Various roles, perhaps needs final clarification as to whose doing what?
Unit 18- Gwen and Bronya. Catia fighting with Bronya? Bronya being lifted and restrained by Nate, Steve, Shaun and George? Also the option of the shoulder lifts choreographed by Ryan?
Unit 19- Wall? Link armed quartet stage right? George moves out from behind the wall and argues with Nicole? Contrast to seeing the palace (stage left). How do they exit?
Unit 20- Bouncers. All enter and assume different routines for entering the palace disco and then dance positions once inside. Sam and Catia stage right and stage left respectively.
Unit 21- Upper class version of unit 7, dancing. Paige clicks her fingers to freeze and unfreeze the cast. Yiannis is the ‘hunky dude’ at the moment, should it be Alaistair? Fight between Nate and Yiannis/Alastair needs choreographing, as does the exit on queue line ‘Go, go, go, go, go!’. Are we including the dance moves from Ryan?
Unit 22- Sinead’s monologue. Simply Sinead centre stage.
Exit- we need to choreograph an exit. See Vanessa in January.

ideas for disco pigs

• is the script clear?
• models of places and puppets
• who is the guitarist?
• 1 couple visible throughout? one journey?
• birthday cake
• 1 of the couples filming it all
• 'i love you baby' build big moment
• in disco 'she wants us for real now' big moment with all couples
• one moment where all pigs and runts come together for a moment.
• PALACE!