Working on Final Major Project Love and Information Log book 1

So we finished off with Noises Off and moving on to the next stage final major project. We looked at both plays : love and information and the blue room. Myself I would prefer playing in the blue room because I found it more changeling as we are not used to perform sexuality on stage and I think that would be a great experience. On the other hand, love and information is a very `free` play which means we can play it as we like it. We can interpret how do we think it should be. Also there no specific characters so we can have as many characters as we want in scenes. Let`s the scene can be played by 2 or 5 actors and it is going to be completely different.

As I found out I am in love and information I was that upset even though the play is not the greatest one we have to give it a try and as I could say we are nailing it. All of us giving a lot of suggestions about the setting, transactions, scenes and characters. Yet some people are really not happy about the play everyone is doing they best and trying to be a part of it. Moreover, we have only 5 weeks to go until the actual performance and technical rehearsals so really need to get on with it.

To be honest, the more I read this play the more I like it. That`s why because we put ourselves into it and start devising it. At first, we have chosen the scenes we like. Important to mention we are going to do all the scenes people wanted to do. Also we all the people who wanted to do a particular scene are going to do it, no matter if it`s 2 or 6 people. In order to make the scenes more Brecht and interesting we double up voices. Let`s say 3 people including me, Jerome and Isabella wanted to play Schizophrenic so me and Jerome reading the same lines at the same time while Isabella reads alone.

The play itself is more like Brecht style which involves a lot of actions which is not likely to happen in real world. For example, in a first scene when Divina tells the secret to Toya we all stretch our ears and go `pshpshpsh`.

As probably everyone noticed the play has 7 acts with 7 scenes in each act which makes total of 49 scenes. We thought we could somehow highlight the title of each scene. For instance, Dream, someone can stand up, shout out DREAM! and everyone else can repeat it or we go straight into the scene.