todays lesson

In today's lesson, we blocked our final scene (other than monologues). This was the scene where Joanna threatens Margaret and Ursula into tricking Benedick and Beatrice into falling for each other. Mandi directed the scene exactly how she envisioned it, as she wrote the script. She wanted the scene to climax just before Benedick, Hero and Beatrice exit the scene so that when Joanna points the gun at Ursula and Margaret, there is true reasoning and emotion behind her actions. The scene moves from Joanna making her feelings known to Officer Benedick about his behavior in the camp, to Joanna threatening Ursula and Margaret into doing her dirty work on pain of death. We then went to the costume cupboard to find 1930's costumes for the opening scene. For me, this was really helpful as it made me realise that my character had a life before Auschwitz.