Rehearsals

Overall, I felt that rehearsals were the weakest points of our overall project. After finding our site and establishing that we wanted to work there, progress seemed to slow down very dramatically at that point, which I felt were down to many combining factors. One of the first things I noticed is the group were very uninspired after we found the site. We struggled to find ideas that we could all agree on and ideas were not coming thick and fast as we struggled to incorporate the site into the ideas we were coming up with. For the first few weeks we found ourselves sitting on our sites, unsuccessfully brainstorming ideas and then moving to the library to do the same thing and I generally found there was a lack of drive, determination and focus to make the piece as interesting and thought provoking as we could. I also found we were very unfocused and members of the group often found them selves sidetracking from the task at hand when ideas were not coming so easily to us and I felt that overall we did not take the project as seriously as we should have taken it. Another thing I found was there were too many people trying to lead the project, often meaning that ideas would get shouted/spoken over each other and that no one would take anything on board or try to practice and see how ideas worked as everyone was too busy trying to get their ideas heard. After a few weeks of unsuccessful rehearsals, an idea finally came about that everyone could agree with, which which was an idea about scandals revolving around political campaign, after this I found that things slightly improved, but I did not feel like rehearsals were taken seriously as people were easily distracted, on more that one occasion we were not successfully able to run over the entire play, and lines were not learned days before the piece. Even after an absence on the performance day which meant we were not able to perform when were supposed to, an extra rehearsal were were supposed to have was just abandoned as people did not turn up and everybody gave up. Overall I felt that rehearsals were the biggest points of failure throughout the project.