Bertolt Brecht: Part 2

In today's lesson we were developing our piece of a Caucasian Chalk Circle. We rehearsed the performance again with the same accents as before, however we decided that the accents made the piece seem silly and immature. By reading a book on Brecht's philosophies we gained knowledge that the piece was deliberately made to be ordinary and reasonably dull in order to allow the audience to think about the action unfolding, so we adapted our accents to be more serious and play the piece more flat, after having a readthrough to see if we could understand the scene a little better. Once we had established this I decided to take charge and work out how we wanted to stage things and when we wanted to. I read through the piece making sure people knew when to come in, when to  mime actions, how to stand and where. We managed to do this relatively well, and the piece flowed a lot better afterwards, as well as looking a lot better. Hopefully, our work today will stand us in good stead to perform a good piece on Monday, if we can remember what we set, I'm sure we can.