Arts Award Update

OK, so its a few days late, but I've been very busy so I'm going to pretend that that's a valid excuse.

On Tuesday, we began to look at scripts that we are going to perform for the final performance at the end of te year. About half the class (including me) looked at a script called 'Palach' which was written to be performed on four seperate stages at the Open Space Theatre in London. It says that it can be performed on one stage if some adaptions, but I think we are planning on doing it on four stages.
Different scenes are performed similtaniously on the seperate stages, which means the audience stand in the middle and can choose where to look at different points in the ply (I am of the view that the audience should be placed on spinny-chairs as that would be far more comfortable). This has the result that, although the script is very thick, the play is actually not as long as you would imagine, due to the fact that much of it is going on at the same time.
On Tuesday, I was playing the part A Mum, and I looked at two scenes. One scene included A Mum, A Dad, A Boy, A Girl and A Priest, all standing in a line and having a converstaion with themseves. Only one person would speak at a time, which would mean that it sounded as if they were having a strange conversation.
The other scene I looked at just involved me and Pete (A Dad) doing a repetetive morning routine whilst repeating what we are doing (eg saying coffee coffee coffee whilst I give him his coffee) we would repeat this morning routine for about seven minutes. Every third time the routine had been repeated, Pete would sing a funny song and do a funny dance. This scene then changed into going through the normal arguments and reconcilliations of a married couple, but we were only speaking in advertising slogans (albeit very out of date slogans) which resulted in me and Pete (and everyone else!) translating it as inuendo.
Other scenes include A Priest singing the lord's prayer whilst performing a striptease and A Girl and A Boy performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet. It should be good when we perform it, especially when we get to throw the juggling balls over the heads of the audience.
Although I was acting the part of A Mum on Tuesday, that more more to assess our suitabilities for roles, and I'll be finding out who I'll actually be playing on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it very much. I would quite like to be given the part of A Girl, but as I haven't really read much of A Girl's script, I'm not sure why I made that decision. I don't really mind which part I get as long as the end result is brilliant!
One group were looking at a play called 'Between Mouthfulls' which was about two couples that attend a restaurant (set on two seperate stages) and a waiter who has to serve their food. WE didn't get to see all of it, as the group had not finished blocking it (it's quite a long play) but Mr Sibley has told us that it conspires that the couple's lives are intertwined (I can't remember the details, something to do with affairs and colleagues) so I'm looking forward to finding out more on Tuesday. Emma was really funny in that!
The final group was looking at a play called 'Mother Figure'. Becky was a mother, obsessed with caring for her children, and when her bickering neighbours pay her a visit, she treats them like children. This had some very funny results, most notably when Becky asked Ophelia if she's like a drink, when Ophelia says yes, Becky asks if she's prefer 'Orange Juice or Milk'. Although the neighbours find her strange at first, as the play progresses they become more and more immature. They had blocked the whole pay, and it was very well done.