diary entry

Doe doe’s diary entry

It was a beautiful, sunny day today. The sky was like a fluorescent blue canopy. Above I saw a flock of birds flittering and swooping, almost dancing through the air above me. I was absolutely entranced, these fortunate creatures were peaceful and they were happy. I watched them as they moved in synchronization with each other and it felt as if they were performing a show just for me. I could not take my eyes off them for a second. It was like they were swimming through an endless blue ocean and they could go wherever they wanted to….. They could get out of here. They were free, the only free creatures left. I wanted more than anything to dance with those birds. I wanted them to set me free. I don’t know exactly how long I stood there, but before I knew it, they were all gone as if by magic. The sky was empty other than a few fluffy cotton wool clouds which drifted overhead and eventually out of sight. I longed to follow those clouds; I wanted to drift out of this place, out of this hell. I want to know what more there is out there; I want to know what the world has to offer. I want to soar through life like the birds, carefree and happy. The more I thought the more I began to feel pain inside, an ache deep inside me. I could almost feel my soul crying, my soul wants to escape, I’ve got to find a way.

Lines

Please all remember your lines if possible before next week. Please can you also put on the blog any text we are missing in the script. Kirsty please could you learn the writing below for the Corridor Scene.

As I fly threw the air I start to think of what I’ve left behind, not just my family and friends, but my belongings and the rest of my ideas. What will happen to them? Will they ever be discovered? And if so, who by? Will someone test them out? I know I’m not going to be able to, but I did leave them in a good place to be rediscovered. Now I’m falling. How is it that there are always a few seconds in between the transition from flying to falling, but the second seems to linger as if I’ve just lived another lifetime The speed is picking up now. I can feel the cold air against my skin as the gravity pulls me down hard and fast. Now I know how it feels to fly, how free and alive it can be, but I’ll never have anyone to share it with. No one to compare the feelings or the state of mind that I’m in. I feel that I’ve really lived my life now. I really pursued this idea to the full and made it spring out of the paper and the scrolls and the models to make this a reality. No regrets. As I crash to the earth again the sounds around me start to fade and I begin to lose myself. That’s when I stopped believing.

Rehearsal

Please can you all attend rehearsals at the following times:

Friday 18 January
9am - 1pm - Rehearsal
2pm - 5pm - Rehearsal

Tuesday 22 January
9am - 12pm - Rehearsal
1pm - 5pm (6pm if necessary) - Technical rehearsal

Wednesday 23 January
9am - 1pm - Dress rehearsal
2pm - 5pm - Drress rehearsal
6pm - 9pm - Performance (7.30pm start)

Thursday 24 January
1pm - 4pm - Performance (2.30pm start)
6pm - 9pm - Performance (7.30pm start)

Friday 25 January
9am - 11am - Get out
1pm - 3pm - Evaluation

The Poster

I have designed a poster using an image by Ilya Kabakov. Please let me know what you think. You can add comments by clicking on the pencil below. If not - I shall run it past you all on Tuesday - but we need to start spreading the word. Please remember to learn your lines! Thanks.

Running Order

1. Space
2. Goodbye Lenin
3. Inspectors
4. Rocket Man
5. National Anthem
6. Freefalling
7. Galaxy Song
8. Corridor Scene
9. Mamas and Papas
10. Describe the Room
11. Shine
12. Matter of Life and Death
13. Constellation
14. Typewriter
15. Swivel
16. Clock
17. Motherland Hears
18. Lullaby

Homework

Happy New Year and I hope you all had a great Christmas. Have a brilliant time in Budapest. Wrap up warm and don't forget to film communist footage for the show. Below is a list of scenes in a random running order with nominations for someone to 'outside eye' the scene when we get back. Think about how you might want to make the scene better or take it in a different direction. Dodo - is it still OK for you to work on a poster design - I will give you times and details asap. Charmaine Chan - please remember you will be leading a warm up in the first session back. Good luck and Bon Voyage. See you in 2008.

This is space - Stuart
Goodbye Lenin - Nik
Inspectors - Jess
Rocket Man - Dodo
Descriptions - Liz
Corridor Scene - Charmaine
Swivel Chair Scene - Kirsty
Interrogation - Liz
National anthem - Sherrie
The Galaxy Song - Jess
California Dreamin' - Stuart
Freefalling - Charmaine
Constellations - Dodo
The Motherland Hears - Nik
Russian Lullaby - Sherrie

Rocket Man lyrics (Could be used as a vocal warm up to familiarize everyone with the lyrics)

Verse
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And i'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much i miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

Chorus
And i think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think i am at home
Oh no no no i'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone (x2)

Verse
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science i don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

Chorus (x2)

And i think it's gonna be a long long time... (x9)