Rehearsal thursday 27th November

begin with vocal warm up

Run scene with dance, notes and new surprises. We have stage manager Ben with us today too.

Let's also add some viewpoints in the composition. Duration, tempo, repetition

Notes:

some lovely work at the very beginning.
do we add constellations motif over laban jamie or play film in background?
NEED to establish all same in the very beginning. something with names?

Chris' beekeeper? should all Rolands come up with motif?

Chris how does the telco dirty honey make you feel?
Paige and chris lovely interaction first scene but vary the pace.
Chris and Paige scene quite long. Maybe a light in another universe can come up for a moment of silent story-telling

Great play with duration Paige.

Well done harry, nice accent choice.

EVERYONE VOLUME

Can we try, Laura start from Zoe to take over before your second scene with Jamie.

Jonathan good energy but careful of the smiling.

Sam and Gonzalo; very truthful and detailed. Try next time with no pauses and all overlapping. Also, more chemistry between you?

Lovely cross over with tea making Paige and Chris. YOur lights should come on just before Sam and Gonzalo scene ends.

Paige lovely play with language in cosmology.

Lovely motif Dan; maybe over all the Rolands at points?

WHAT DO WE SHOW FOR QUANTUM PHYSICS etc in Zoe's speech? String theory.
WITH ALL LAMPS!????

Zoe, strong delivery of the physics speech.

Laura, very engaging particles speech.

Yvette, another choice for i am so tired? Good listening to each other Dan and Yvette.

Great journey Sam and G, adds dynamics to movement. Can you visit all universes in the right spots for either jamie or Roland?

Brilliant puppet and interaction.

Great mimicking idea when you all came into it with Alison Oconner. Let's make rule that Jamies' only mimic jambes etc. Then you can address another mimicking Jamie or Roland other than your partner at times. This will also help establish only 2 characters?

Really powerful moments of when the motifs come in.

Lovely work Jonathan and Greg.

Great movement Sam and G in portuguese scene. Should we have you not have a universe until the proposal? you can just travel around space? Generals or other universes can light you.

Lovely choice james to cuddle greg. are you a roland and a jamie?

Great moment of harry and zoe, your own wedding? let's have everyone dance. the jamies' that are getting married let go, others don't.

laura, interesting in his face choices with distance.

Yes lovely beginning of ballroom practice little by little then it can build up. to all. with music fading in?

let's build up to whole dancing before laughter. Then G & Sam can shout over the music.
Then paige' s joke will not go down well.

Nicely played dan and yvette but will audience get the meaning of what jamie is considering?

Lovely idea G. Shall we put over Jonathan's bee sign speech?

I love the return of motifs. jamie needs a little other one to do with science?

Lovely proposal G. can you come in with a hanging harmonium instead of piano?

Over Chris bee speech, all jamies with all rolands. Rolands do the bee motif.


lovely proposal crhis. can we keep it you get to the floor without someone pushing you?
Lovely jamie and laura proposal? maybe a little less but lovely play between reality and subtext. laura more with the seduction so that barbecue line more of an anticlimax.

Would men propose on one knee to another man? I don't know.  Lovely hug sam.

Gorgeous dance. can we have a mash up of music though to show different universes and possibilities?

James and paige you dance always too well for roland and jamie. Do we show that you are quite proud of what you have learnt?


Second half after the break:

G & Sam, do the scene across space again?
Good or bad idea for Jamie to have a bag that all jamies' share?
During Sam speech. Light up all Jamies.
Great choice with repetition sam. how to pronounce palliative?
Lovely choice with repetition of ok G.

We need overlapping scenes more.

Then we Zoe's benign, Light up again on healthy Jamies?

Love the happy dance harry and zoe.

Dan reallylovely walking silently over laura speech looking at the stars. Let's keep just that image.

During Yvette and Dan long scene? What do we do?

Can we overlap g&sam scenes and chris and paige? try it and see what it sounds like. And over it harry and zoe?

But harry and zoe were begin couple. will that confuse universes? Should we cut that scene? they can stay happy and healthy instead? otherwise all possibilities are sad?

Is taxi from the hospital? should we signify that? we hospital robe or something?

like the clock sounds.

The pace in the second half really slow. we need to up it. somehow.

yes lovely. harry and chris alone without jamie. but we need to make clearer sense for audience?

Chris yes alone then dance with Paige.

But harry and zoe happier ending.