'Road' - Week 7

Quick Run Through

On Wednesday, we ran through Road, to see what props where needed for each scene. I also started to learn my cues for when I come on stage. For my first scene I didn't need any props as I am just talking to the audience. However this was helpful as I found my cue to come on was when Clare says "I'd rather get in bed". This is the cue for my first scene, and I knew that I had to come on stage very upbeat and high energy to quickly change the mood of the piece from the sad scene with Joey and Clare. For my second scene I come on when the song Don't know much about History by Sam Cooke comes on, I like this cue as its easy to listen out for as sometimes I may not hear my cue line but if its a song it will be much easier. For this scene I will need headphones, to give the impression I'm a DJ however, I don't need them for my first scene as I don't play any records. I may also need some records in the second scene.

Proper Run Through

John Travolta Point

After this we did a proper run through, I did my second scene in which I do many different dance moves, I felt my dance moves were all really good and this was my best run to date. The first song I dance to is Let's Dance, I felt like I should add a movement to start the song, I felt like moving my arm slowly from side to side to show that I want every audience member to get up and dance. The second song I dance to is the Bee Gee's Saturday Night Fever, for this I'm going to do some different spins, as they work with the rhythm of the music, I will then do the John Travolta point, as its quite iconic to this song. The next song I dance to is Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire, for this song I do the twist dance move, this was an iconic dance move back in the 50s, and even has a song named after it called Let's Twist Again which came out in the same era. The next song is Barry White's Can't Get Enough of Your Love, in which I pretend to kiss an imaginary girl, I think this is great because it shows how Bisto is thinking about a certain girl which works with the text 'well you know who you are, darling'. I then for the first time this week started to strip, I think that this was brilliant as it was very memorable, I think it propels my scene to another level of Comedy and it describes Bisto perfectly. Luckily for me we decided that as soon as my shirt gets to the lowest button to stop the music, and I get a bit flustered. this is the last song that I properly dance to so I wanted to make it as memorable as I could and I felt I did. The last song was Je' taime which I don't fully dance to but leave to, I didn't know what to do for this, I was recommended to close my eyes and walk out with my DJ set. I felt this was good as it was the last we see of Bisto and is quite symbolic and shows how he loves what he does because he is fully embracing it by closing his eyes. I feel by reading the script and Bisto's character people take Bisto as this aggressive DJ who only loves sex and alcohol, my objective through Road was to change peoples view on Bisto, I felt in order to make sure his scenes were the comic relief of the play he had to connect with the audience and I felt I did this in the last bit of the second scene where I'm telling the people how much I love them and then walk out slowly to Je' taime. 

I felt in this run through I was stuttering a bit, I know that was because I still wasn't 100% confident with my lines so I will go away going through all my lines before performance week. I got some other feedback over my scene, I was told to stay in character as there was a point where I came out of character and laughed as myself. This was because this was the first time I got really good reactions for my scene, and I didn't know how to control myself and stay in character, this annoyed me as I thought I was a better actor than this and it won't happen again. There were also parts where I was quite rushed with my lines, I felt this was because I was so energetic that I wanted to rush the lines. I got good feedback though as I was confident and I had great dance moves. 

Next week is performance week so I will be focusing on my role for the character. I'm confident going into next week I just need to go over my lines. 

'Road' - Week 6

In this week we looked back over the whole performance and looked at if anything could be changed and how well everyone was progressing.

Blocking and Feedback

We started blocking, I watched many scenes but what stood out to me was Frank's scene, I felt his accent was coming along really well from where it was at, I think he still has work to do before the show but its a lot better than it was. Frank had also stated to move around a lot more, he wasn't just stationary in his chair, I liked this a lot as it kept me enthralled and showed his status throughout different moments in the scene. Frank's character Jerry is very nostalgic, he seems to have a good memory of the olden days and he gives strong hints that he was in the war. Frank shows this very well and I believe uses emotional memory to recreate Jerry's nostalgic moments, emotional memory is a part of Stanislavski's System which makes the actor think back to a time much like the script to make a more real looking emotion. I thought this of Frank because I truly believed he was Jerry and not himself. I also feel that Frank's use of pause was superb, with pauses it is very easy to lose the audiences attention, but Frank I felt got them timed perfectly. 

I then watched Sophie's monologue, Sophie plays Valerie, I felt Sophie did a good job with the accent and the ending, I always believed that to deliver a good monologue the beginning and ending have to be the best parts as this is what's going to be remembered. I felt at points she was over acting, the piece is very sad and at points very low key, I felt that at points Sophie was adding movements to parts that didn't need it, this made the piece at points seem fake and not believable. I suggest that she make its more naturalistic and looked into Stanislavski's system like Nathan has.

After this I evaluated Nyakeh, I knew before watching this that it would be good, Nyakeh is a fantastic actor in my opinion and he didn't disappoint in this scene, he didn't move around a lot but I was still enthralled, this was because he was so believable as his character that I couldn't keep my eyes off him. I felt as if I forgot who Nyakeh was and I was watching his character. I feel he still has work to do with his accent but its definitely coming along, I think if he can nail the accent this will be one of the best scenes in the show. 

I then did my scene and got relatively good feedback, overall the my scene was good with only one slip up in my lines, I got once again good feedback but I also got some constructive criticism, for example when I was thinking about my next line I would look down, for my confident character it was shown how when thinking about the next line to keep my head up so I still seem like a confident and arrogant DJ. I also was told how I didn't really have an objective of what my next movement was, this I felt myself when performing but didn't know how to change it mid-scene, for the future I'm going to work on my scenes and make sure every movement has a purpose as it will make my character more believable as a cheesy outcast. I was also told to slow down ever more at the end, I find this part difficult to do as I have to go from quick movement and voice to slow movement and voice, I'm dedicated to getting this ending right as it will be the last time the audience see Bisto talking. 

Music With Joe

In this week I also worked with Joe on getting the music right for my piece, I went through my scene and he would play the songs according to the script, last week (week 5) I talked about changing the music, I'm happy to say that most of what I proposed was accepted, however instead of Boogie Wonderland, I will now be using Let's Dance by David Bowie, which in retrospect is better, as it works with the final lines before this song plays which are 'Lets Dance'. This song fades into the Bee Gees song, however both of these songs are very different and merging them will sound weird, both me and Joe thought the same, and I suggested that a sound effect be added in between the sounds, like a cheesy 'woopie doopie dooo!', Joe liked the idea and told me he would see what he could do.

War in 1980s

A British War Crematorium, showing
those who have fallen fighting for
their country.

As Road has progressed I have noticed that many characters have been involved in the army, for example Curt, Jerry and some more. I decided to research the Falklands War as this is the war that's being referenced to, considering the time period and place. The war went on for ten weeks, and was between the UK and Argentina, the fight was over land, in the south Atlantic ocean. The war was mostly fought in the air and on sea. Many soldiers including the ones in Road miss the war, because it gave them something to do and they were with their friends while doing it. I feel that many of the people on Road don't have many qualifications and went to war as they had nothing else, they were accepted by the army as they were just another number. As seen by Curt's character the war had deeply affected him, and uses alcohol as an anti depressant to what he saw over seas and to hid the sadness of some of his best friends dieing fighting for their country. I think that in some ways Curt wishes he did die in the war because he now has nothing. 

Overall I felt I made good progress in this week with getting the music right and helping people with there scenes, by next week I hope to have made progress on the feedback I was given. 

'Road' - Week 5

In this week we worked more on the pre show, and I talked to Deborah about my lines, I also ran through my scene on Thursday and got great feedback.

Pre Show

On Wednesday, we worked on the pre show, I now have a set place for the pre show, for the pre show everyone is on stage while the professor and Scullery ask each member about life on 'Road'. Each character does one of their lines, for example Dor and Bald ask Professor, if he's seen any keys because Dor has lost her keys on a drunken night out. Professor then comes up to me, and asks me to do a tape recording on 'Road', after the professor repeatedly says my name and I don't hear him, the audience see how Bisto is so focused on his Music and how he is always in the moment. After a while the professor pushes me slightly, I notice him and then say my catchphrase ' You'll get used to me, you'd better', I say this in a way so it is as if I'm joking around with him, at this time I am staying in character and will be spinning discs to represent my character and give the audience an insight into my musically based role after this I leave upstage, the same way that I came on. The idea for my character at the moment is that I'll be on a podium like stage that is for Bisto.

Artistic Changes

 After the time we had off for Easter, I learnt my lines and looked at Music that could be used for each of Bisto's parts in an effort to get the audience on their feet. The Beatoven Disco is first seen when Bisto opens this scene, 'Welcome to the Millstone Pub, I'm Bisto and this is the Beatoven Disco. You'll get used to me... You'd better. By my calculators we've only got fifteen minutes left till last orders, so let's dance!' After this Madonna is supposed to come on. After doing my own research and by already having a love for older music, I felt Boogie Wonderland by Earth Wind and Fire was a better choice song, this is because its a song that you can't help move to, the song is very catchy and I feel describes Bisto's bubbly nature of always being high energy.

Some time after this Bisto changes the mood, 'This next one is one of me personal favourites, and I dedicate it to you... well you know who you are, ya bitch!'. After this has been said Can't Get Used to Losing You by Andy Williams plays.

After listening to the song, I didn't recognize it, and I felt considering Bisto is the comic relief of the play it wasn't right to change the mood, I suggested this to Deborah and asked to change the lines to 'This next one is one of me personal favourites, and I dedicate it to you... well you know who you are darling'. I then suggested to have the song,  Can't get enough of your love by Barry White. I think this is better than the Andy Williams song, as people know the Barry White song better and I feel I can really get into character when this song is playing by dancing with an invisible women. This I prefer to the firs option where Bisto is angry, I feel that Bisto isn't like this, because even though he has grown up in a tough area, he isn't very angry as I believe he uses music to calm himself down. I also feel that the mood of anger has already been shown before in Road, and that it would start to become repetitive to the audience.

This week I felt was successful, I hope Deborah will accept what I've proposed as I feel it will help me with my character.

'Road' - Week 3

Introduction

In this week we went through blocking and I looked through my character in more depth. 

Blocking 

Constantin Stanislavski. The mastermind
behind the Method. 

We started blocking from after the interval which is the start of act 2, which first features Bistos second scene. I once again didn't get much critical comments, this was good but I felt my acting wasn't at its best, I did the scene again in my spare time and tried using Stanislavski's 'emotional memory'. I found this difficult though as Bisto is such an ordinary character that his lines and the way he is makes it difficult to compare it to myself. I also got to see the blocking of other scenes, I particularly enjoyed the blocking of Issie and Jake. I liked this scene between Louise and her brother as its the first scene in the show and it really sets the mood of 'Road', the way that Jake wipes his dirty hands over Issie's face I think is brilliant, I love Issie's shocked reaction but she won't do anything because her brother is dominant. I like Nathan's Scene as well as he portrays Skin-Lad. A skin head who is into keeping fit and looking after his body, he's seen by the rest of Road as a bit of a 'nutter'. There were some things that I would've tweaked in Nathan's performance but overall I felt he did well. Thankfully after we had finished blocking I got to work with Nathan and we both got to say how we could improve each of our performances. 

Working With Nathan

Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden

The 'pads' in Road

As said before, I was happy to work with Nathan as I felt he could really help my work and I could help his. We both started by showing each other our scenes, I showed mine first and got feedback from Nathan. He said about making my key catchphrase 'you'll get used to me, you'd better', different each time so it doesn't get boring. I said about how considering this is a catchphrase it needs to be quite repetitive and not so different each time, we both agreed to make each one different but only subtly. Nathan also requested that I say the line in quite an angry way and then joke with the audience. This shows an aggressive side to Bisto, that we see later on when he talks about a girl he used to like 'you know who you are... ya bitch!'. This line shows a different side to Bisto which makes the audience question Bisto's other side. After I had gotten this feedback we looked at Nathan's work. I told Nathan to really think about visioning the skin heads on the wall that Skin-lad remembers seeing, this is an integral part of Nathan's monologue. I also told Nathan to look at Fight Club as an inspiration to his character, I see him as the Brad Pitt Tyler Durden, when saying the rules of Fight Club, this can be related to when Skin-Lad is talking about Targets. I also asked Nathan to say the 'pads' slower to make it more intense for the audience. I felt that Nathan should have kept all his lines getting faster until the 'KIYAA!' with the pads being slow. I felt this would built the intensity of the scene and the mystic of Skin Lad.

Skin heads in the 1980s

I was interested in Nathan's character so I decided to research more into Skin Lad's character and Skin Heads in the 1980s. I found out that after the second world war many young people had a lot of money, they would spend this money on clothing and fashionable looks, they would often imitate actors musicians and other icons. Many people started to shave their heads in a effort to look different, this caught on in the 1960s and went on for many years. I think Skin Lad followed this trend in as he also wanted to look different, it is also said in his part of the script how he once saw Skin Lads sitting on a wall, I believe that he is so into the skin head lifestyle that he saw these other skin heads as imposters. He may have seen them as bootboys, suedeheads or smoothies, which were new categories that were much like the skin head look. The skinhead look was so popular that the band Slade adopted the look in order to get more sales. Skin heads would wear Doc Martens 'the pad and fall of the doc martins'. and button up shirts or polo shirts. 

Paddy McGuiness

After we had examined each others pieces, Deborah gave me the advice of searching for action lines, to make Bisto seem even more cheesy. She also suggested that I make up 4 stock  movements, this would help my character to become more over the top and also create cheesy repetition. I was told to look up Paddy McGuiness as inspiration, as he is a lot like Bisto, with his dad like movements and punctual jokes.


To conclue another week I felt I did well as I learnt more bout my character and got to view more scenes being blocked.

'Road' - Week 2

In this week of Road we started to block the play. I'm excited to see what 'Road' will develop into.

While the blocking was happening I started to think bout my character Bisto. I looked firstly at what his appearance would be like and personality. I started to think that Bisto would look a lot like John Travolta from Grease. This appearance firstly came to mind as I knew that back in the 80s this look was very popular with John Travolta being a hit icon. I also thought about my characters personality and James Buckley from The Inbetweeners, Buckley plays a character called Jay Cartwright who is a loud mouth teen who is fuelled by Sex and vulgar language much like that of Bisto.




I then went on to ask question about Bisto's first scene.

V-Sign

The first scene my character is in is on page 31 and the stage directions read as so: "Bisto, the pub DJ, enters with a pack of leaflets. (On them is something like 'Bisto and his Beatoven Disco. Tonight at the Millstone Pub'.) He throws these out to the audience as he speaks. He wears a hat with two stuffed fingers on top in the V- Sign."

Who is Present in this scene?

No other characters, Bisto and Audience.

When is it happening?

'Road' is set at night however this scene I think is set around 5pm as he is handing out leaflets for the disco later on starting at 8pm. 

How does he behave?

Bisto behaves like he is the bee knees, he thinks he's really cool, but in reality apart from the Road he is an outcast. He acts very energetic as he thinks this is the way to attract people to his Disco. He may even flirt with some of the girls to attract them, as he thinks he is gods gift to all women.

What was the scene before and after?

My scene needs to be really energetic as the scenes before and after are really sad about a couple not eating. It will be difficult for me to get the energy levels of the audience high again but I'm ready for a challenge.

Where is the scene happening?

Outdoors, he doesn't have any boundaries to approach someone. Bisto is very annoying, which makes him unpopular.

What might happen next?

I think that Bisto may get punched considering he may flirt with someone's wife or girlfriend and because he is annoying.

Rehearsals

I did my long scene for the first time in this rehearsal, I felt it went really well, as I got comments like 'I was born for this Role', this was followed up with no critical comments on how to improve, this gave me a major confidence boost. I felt really good about myself but I would have liked some critic so I can make this character the best of my ability. Hannah gave the comment that this character is a lot like Peter Kay, Kay is a comedian who is very cheesy like Bisto and often uses foul language. The accents are also the same and I will use Peter Kay as an influence when looking at accents for Road. 

1980s music and before

Michael Jackson

Road is set in the 1980s and my character Bisto is the DJ of the local pub on the Road. Bisto loves music. I thought I'd research more into this era of Music to help with my character development and also for my own interest. The 1980s started to produce songs from the pop genre, Disco was also very popular in this era. In the 80s artists like Michael Jackson had a huge influence on music with songs such as Billie Jean and Thriller, the album thriller was so monumental that t won a record breaking 8 Grammy awards, including the award best album of the year. Other artists such as Donna Summer had a huge impact on the 1980s and before, Summer was known as the 'Queen of Disco' because of her contribution to the art. In the 1950s 60s and 70s, Elvis was a massive sensation. He was know as 'The King of Rock n' Roll' and rightfully so. Elvis' charisma and persona made him so a likeable and relateable person to the youth of that generation. Elvis was disliked very much by the parents and elderly of that generation, saying how Elvis was too sexual. Many cameras that filmed Elvis' tours would only film Elvis above the waist because of his sexual nature. I think Elvis is a massive inspiration to the character Bisto. This is shown as Bisto is very sexual like Elvis was. The 'King' died in 1977, some years before Road was set, I think this had a huge impact on Bisto, because Elvis was such an inspiration to him. Bisto was also upset as he never got to see 'The King' live as he only came to the UK once and that was to stop off in Scotland. Bisto always plays Elvis as a way to remember his music and to remember the great time he had growing up to this wonderful music. 

Elvis Presley  'The King of Rock n' Roll'

This week of Road has been good for me as I got to delve into my character and start to piece together how I see him.

Greek Theatre Homework

The Greeks gave many things to theatre. They were the first people to use a chorus, the chorus were a group of people who back then represented societies views and in most Greek plays they had the same view on political themes. The chorus is still used today in contemporary theatre, but in a much different way, most contemporary pieces will allow the chorus to interact with the main actors and to compile their own view on the subject at hand. The Greeks also gave theatre the actor Thespis who is believed to have been the first actor ever, and is why Actors today are also referred to as Thespians.

Greeks had quite a unique way of staging their theatre. They staged all their plays in the round which meant that they would perform on a stage and have the audience to their left, right and in from of them in a semi circle type formation. This is much like the Laurence Olivier Theatre, as that is in the round derived from the Greeks. The Greeks also most of the time put the Theatres so that they had a lovely scene behind. For example the festival of Dionysus was built into a rock so there could be a nice scene for the audience to see as the backdrop.

The function of the chorus is to show the feelings and views of the society on different issues and subjects at the time. Most of the time the chorus would all have one view on the subject at hand but there were few cases where they split off to show two different views or even more.

The function of the mask was to hide the identity of the actors as they would sometimes mock the government and they wouldn't want to get in trouble. They also had masks so 1 actor could play several different characters.

Greek Theatre is quite different from modern theatre, as the chorus who were regularly used in Ancient Greece aren't used that much any more. There is also many more actors on stage where as in Ancient Greece there were only a few. Theatre in Greece was also quite a big thing, people from all over the world would come see the Theatre of Dionysus whereas nowadays not as many people are as interested.

The reason I think so many people attended the theatre was because it was a tradition to attend and there wasn't much entertainment. It was also heavily sponsored by the government and people who were rich so people would find out about it that way.

There are many stereotypical themes in Ancient Greece and fate is the biggest one of them all. Most performances have this theme in them as the hero would be stuck with an irreversible hindrance. For example in Oedipus his fate is that he will marry and have kids with his mother. Oedipus' father is told this and disowns his son. Fate plays a massive theme in most Greek plays.

'Road' - Week 1

Today, we found out that our second contemporary performance would be 'Road' by Jim Cartwright, I hadn't heard of this play or playwright before, so I was excited to learn about this play. I knew before starting this project that this would be our second contemporary piece. Our first being '13' by Mike Bartlett. In '13' our first contemporary play, i portrayed a very clever atheist who had lung cancer cancer. His name was Stephen Crossley. I didn't want to play the same sort of character in 'Road' as I wanted to show diversity between both roles and challenge myself.

After hearing we were going to 'Road' we all sat down and read the script, I was asked to play Brian, this character seems to have quite a sexual relationship with the character Marion. As indicated by the direction from Jim Cartwright. 'He stands over her, pulls his zip down'. Marion replies to this 'no I want a butty first'. This line shows how this is most likely not there first time having sex as there is no passion from Marion. This could indicate how they are an older couple, who are lacking excitement in the bedroom. I'm quite relecutant to play this character as his old much like Stephen Crossley. After hearing other characters speak, I was instantly pulled to the character of Bisto. The pub DJ, who is seen as a bit of a nutter and to me would be an outcast to the rest of society away from 'Road'. He has the catchphrase 'you'll get used to me, you'd better', this catchphrase sums this character up and shows how he craves attention. I really like this character because he is quite unique amongst the people on 'Road' and his is quite a lot different from Stephen Crossley as he seems fun to be around, loud, foul mouthed and also dumb. This is the character I would like to be and will be asking to be cast as. 

As we read Jim Cartwrights debut play, we thought about the main themes and how most are contemporary. The main themes are: 

Sex, Poverty, Alcohol, Miners, Nostalgia, Drugs, Aggression, Music.

A rally against Margaret Thatcher after she closed the mines

I felt sex was the main theme and will always be contemporary as sex will always be had as its the way people are made and will allow humanity to flourish. After researching into the 1980s I found out a lot about Margaret Thatcher, who was the first women prime minister for England, she was nicknamed the Iron Lady while in power, Thatcher was a key icon to many but wasn't at all inspirational to the lower class. The Iron lady closed many of the mines throughout the UK because they were making a loss of profit, as the miners wanted a pay rise and they weren't getting enough resources from the mines themselves. This put many of the working class and lower class people out of work and would eventually lead to depression, the lower class would look for anti depressants to try and cover up these bad times, they would use sex as an anti depressant, and many women would be more vulnerable to this theme as they had no money and would turn to prostitution. The character I'd like to Bisto is very sexually oriented and I think this is due to the fact that he was put out of work due to the closing of the mines. Sex was a escape mechanism for Bisto and many other characters like Scullery, this is shown as Scullery is always flirting with women with lines like 'come and taste me', as he is trying to have a fun time with the other sex and not fall into more depression like he already had. I also think Scullery was in the army as it has been hinted at many times, and he may of lost some friends in the war which would of made him even more sad.

Poverty is also quite contemporary as there will always be parts around the world where people are struggling. Throughout Road there is a lot of Poverty as I have gathered from reading the script, due to the lose of jobs, people had no work and weren't making much money if any at all, this is shown in Road, as we see the narrator Scullery looking through old rubbish to find things that he can have and maybe sell. Thatcher who was the prime minister at the time, was a conservative she led the UK in the Falklands war in the 1980s, I think many of the characters in Road were in this war and resent Thatcher as they may believe that the reason there friends have been killed is due to Thatcher taking the UK into this war. 

Nostalgia is a big theme in this play and will remain contemporary as people will always think about how the past were the best days. As said before many of the characters in Road where in the war, I think that many characters miss their companions and loved ones that they lost in the war, they think back to these times, as they miss the times they spent with that person. Nostalgia for these characters may also come in the way of politics even though the people on Road aren't perceived as clever, they may wish Thatcher and the Conservatives weren't in power and think back to a time when Labour where in power. 

Music is another big theme, specially for the character of Bisto, Music was a massive theme in the 80's and before, around this time was the era of disco music, artists like Earth, Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Roxy Music were very popular in this era. This was another way to let go of any negative energy by listening to music and dancing, these two activities are known to relieve stress, and this is one of the main ways Bisto alleviates himself. 

After thinking about themes we were set homework, our task was to sit throughout different times in the day and listen to the road outside. Once I had completed this task at 1pm, 9pm and 1am. I had very different results. At 1pm I heard the pub next door on my road and noticed things like men talking about sports and laughing. I also heard kids running around and having fun as there parents drank on a sunny Saturday afternoon. At 9pm the results were quite different, the chatting in the pub was more aggressive and loud. I also heard a motorbike reving its engines as it was about to set off. In addition to this I noticed mum talking to my step dad about Coronation Street. At 1am not a lot was heard as it was quite quiet as the pub had closed and the birds were asleep, I heard an odd car go by about once every 2-3 minutes. After doing this excercise we presented our results back to the class, after everyone had given back, we were told to pick one time and pick three sounds from that time. I chose to pick 1pm as it was the most stereotypical to my road. Once we had picked the three sounds we all did our first chosen sound very quiet and getting louder, this gave the impression that many things were quite far away but we're getting closer. Our class also did this with the two other sounds and it was recorded by our lecturer Deborah. This will be the soundscape that we use for our play 'Road' as its quite naturalistic and gives the impression of something building to a climax with all the sounds getting louder. It also gave the feeling of a stereotypical road as there were kids playing thinking their invincible, angry mothers and fathers chatting and laughing in the pub about sports and other stereotypical manly things. 

As we had done our soundscape it was time to do our set design, my idea was quite simple compared to others in retrospect, In mine I have chosen to put each scene in a way similar to a vending road, I also have the audience following this road to give the impression that they are a part of road. As said by Scullery in one of the opening scenes 'This is our Road'. There were some other really good ideas, Matt had the idea that we use different rooms and that the audience walk through as the performing arts area of the college is easily connected. This was a good idea, as it meant the audience are active and engaged throughout the piece.

I'm really happy about the piece chosen and I'm excited to find out what character I will portray and how this production will progress.