Getting Ready for School Tours Part 2

So the lesson on Thursday was little bit tricky as it was only me and Carlos from the whole group. Divina and Sam arrived exactly the same time when we were about to go on and show what we did in the lesson. Carlos and I described the scenes, the beginning, middle and end as our performances involves all the people in our group so we couldn`t perform without them.

This lesson our task was to find out who`s got what kind of skills and we came up with a list of skills each person on our group has:

• Katy. Dance, act, sing, play a piano. 
• Carlos. Act, dance, speak Portuguese, very good comedian. 
• Divina. Sing, dance, act, intimate as she and Sam are going out in real life so maybe we can use it in our performance, also speak Portuguese. 
• Matthew. Act, he is good at physical theatre as well as lifts and weighting as he is very tall and strong. 
• Toya. Sing, act, African dance, speak Dutch.
• Sam. Act, dance, intimate with Divina. 
• Amber (me). Act, dance, karate (kick-boxing), speak Lithuanian. 

So that`s the main skills mentioned above that we may us in our performance.

Another task was to create at least one scene and time it. Carlos and I wrote down all movements and actions from the beginning to the end. The scene starts with to main characters on stage (split scene), and shows their morning. Everything is going in a fast mode just shows the basic of their lives. It repeats for 2 times and then it slows down to a normal tempo. Katy and Sam wakes up at the same time and then Sam freezes and Katy is getting ready for college, when leaves the house she freezes and then Sam starts getting ready. It is important to mention, that Katy is doing A-levels whilst Sam is taking BTEC. They both are going to separate colleges. One college stands for A-levels, this is the one where Katy, Toyo and Carlos are going and the college where everyone is taking BTEC, that is the one where Sam, Divina, and I are going. As Matthew was not in college for sometime we decided that the best role for him would be a teacher, just in case he will be not in the performance day. I also came up with an idea to make the performance more interesting to give each other a particular subject. Lets say Sam is doing BTEC drama, Divina singing and I sports, while Katy is taking A-levels in music and drama, Toya is taking dance and Carlos is learning languages. Basically, it just shows how Sam and Katy travels through different classes and how Sam is good at everything and Katy is failing. Our idea is to show that if you do A-levels you are not any better than those who are taking BTEC. During the performance we will show how they face and deal with difficulties in family, with friends etc. and how it affects main characters` lives. In the end they will apply for university and Sam gets in whilst Katy is really struggling getting in, so she might just drop out or not get into university due to huge pressure in life.