Devised: Day 8

Today was the first day back after the Christmas holidays so, of course, things were a little rusty. One of our group members had researched a little about the role of women in the 1930's and discovered that our piece would be more realistic if Finn met Tess when she was working as a waitress, as single women would more than likely work in speakeasy's as eye candy for men, as well as cheap labour for owners. We also looked at the way the owner speaks to Tess, now it is a lot more harsh and realsitic for the time period. Before, Tess was actually in the bar and known by the owner, we thought this was a little inaccurate. Also, instead off Tess and Finn bumping into each other, they meet by Tess dropping a tray of glasses, to which Finn goes to help her, again making it seem more realistic and not some predictable, cringy meeting. One thing we also done was to give the author more control over the scene. For example, he may say, "How can i make this happen?" and actually interact with the scene, whilst we are frozen, to make it even more obvious that we are his characters and will follow his lead, but also because it is a nice delicate touch and shows that we have thought about the scene in detail.

We then went onto our argument scene again just to run over things and to make sure we knew what we were doing. Still the same issues of making the stage combat look realistic keep coming back. It is certainly something we need to practice on.