A word from Lulu

'Today we had to move the set again into a new rehearsal room, then started off with a couple of concentration games. We did the usual discussion exercise talking about a topic of our choice to build pronunciation techniques, today the topic became pretty heated on the idea of cloning and wether or not it is ethical. We then talked about our character questionnaires that we were asigned for homework and some really funny and interesting ideas came up. Once we were all focused and warmed up we then went into physicalising the characters we picked for the questionnaire and started interacting with each other as them. We were then divided into groups to devise scenes (the tree coming to life, the tree being magical and the tree starting to die) we were given a few advice from the director on which to improve. Consequently we did some improvising, we did an exercise with two contrasting narrators and the rest of the cast being actors performing what the narrators were saying. It was interesting as it gave us the possibility to play around with different characters. Also the freedom given to the narrators to say whatever they wanted brought the story line to several diverse pathways which was really engaging and fun to do. We discussed possible props at the end and costumes which we have come up with so far and also gave our character preferences to the director.' - Lucrezia