The importance of knowing what you are saying! (21/08/2025)
Today we began devising our new structure. Having a clear roadmap for what we wanted to say made the rehearsal so much more fruitful. Decisions where made by asking ourselves: how does this serve what we want say? This not only focused our rehearsal, but allowed to discover new mechanisms for our storytelling. We began with the last politician scene (a.k.a. Law Factory), which Lau directed as we improvised movements and text. Then, we worked our way backwards to the rise of Peach to power, in which we figured out how to use the mechanism of the curtain rail as a tv frame that shows snippets of different actions occurring at the same time. Also, we discovered how to include the audience, as they became a part of the frame with Millie of the people gathering to protest the incarceration of Winnie. We also understood how to divide the playing space so that as the play goes on, the government slowly encroaches into the space closest to the audience, which represents the private domain.