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How did you write the first three scenes, and what were they trying to acheive?
- Key Stage 3
- Year 9
- English
The thing for an audience is that they need to feel that they're in safe hands. You know, there's an amount of challenge or not understanding or not quite sure about where we are-ness that an audience can cope with before they start switching off, and I think if you, you know, we go straight in with Hortense, and because she's a sort of quite a charming narrator and an interesting narrator, we go with her story, but then we expect the audience to switch to a completely different world, a different country, a different time. And I think it's important, it's always important that you take the audience with you. You have to give them some, yeah, you have to land them and let them start to breathe into, relax into the story that they're being told, and when you've got three different protagonists with kind of equal weight, really, I think, yes. I mean, in rehearsal room, we sort of used to call it the circle line, so we used to sort of say, you know, the character starts out telling their story and then they let the audience know where they are, and they're at a very crucial stopping point in their story, when they're on the brink of something, they circle back, fill the audience in, and sort of fill themselves in at the same time with what's happened to them to date to bring them to this moment, this particular station, and then, obviously, the train takes off in a different direction, and they go with it, and hopefully the audience go with it as well. Yeah, you know, the first time, it was really nice to see the way that the audience responded to that, you know? The first time when we switched to Queenie, suddenly, there's a sort of a little bit of unease and they're sort of thinking, "I don't understand this. Where are we now? What's going on? Why are we not with Hortense?" You know, it's a big switch, but then by the time you get to Gilbert, they've got it and they're completely relaxed, they understand, you know, what the device is, so I think it did actually work. <v Interviewer>(indistinct) That was so interesting. </v> <v ->Okay. </v>
<v ->Okay. Thanks. </v>.
How did you write the first three scenes, and what were they trying to acheive?
- Key Stage 3
- Year 9
- English
The thing for an audience is that they need to feel that they're in safe hands. You know, there's an amount of challenge or not understanding or not quite sure about where we are-ness that an audience can cope with before they start switching off, and I think if you, you know, we go straight in with Hortense, and because she's a sort of quite a charming narrator and an interesting narrator, we go with her story, but then we expect the audience to switch to a completely different world, a different country, a different time. And I think it's important, it's always important that you take the audience with you. You have to give them some, yeah, you have to land them and let them start to breathe into, relax into the story that they're being told, and when you've got three different protagonists with kind of equal weight, really, I think, yes. I mean, in rehearsal room, we sort of used to call it the circle line, so we used to sort of say, you know, the character starts out telling their story and then they let the audience know where they are, and they're at a very crucial stopping point in their story, when they're on the brink of something, they circle back, fill the audience in, and sort of fill themselves in at the same time with what's happened to them to date to bring them to this moment, this particular station, and then, obviously, the train takes off in a different direction, and they go with it, and hopefully the audience go with it as well. Yeah, you know, the first time, it was really nice to see the way that the audience responded to that, you know? The first time when we switched to Queenie, suddenly, there's a sort of a little bit of unease and they're sort of thinking, "I don't understand this. Where are we now? What's going on? Why are we not with Hortense?" You know, it's a big switch, but then by the time you get to Gilbert, they've got it and they're completely relaxed, they understand, you know, what the device is, so I think it did actually work. <v Interviewer>(indistinct) That was so interesting. </v> <v ->Okay. </v>
<v ->Okay. Thanks. </v>.