Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow (White Christmas Style!)...

Yeehaw! More snow!!!! This past Thursday, we were dumped on! Something like 6+ inches fell on lovely Londontown and it was glorious. It wasn't a snow day though...the tutors made it in, so could we. The pic above is on my walk to school. It was a good day. Some of the Stage Combat course boys made a gigantic snowman! We began our day with Stage Combat and our continued work with swords! We did a little pirate choreography and swash buckled our way through class. It was fantastic.

The rest of the week was much of the same - rehearsal. We go up on Friday and are in a really good place. The whole show is blocked and we ran through it in its entirety already so we are pretty set for next week's rehearsals. We did have an amazing experience on Thursday afternoon. We ended up morphing into a mass improv with the whole group. It began with Rhys (our director and head of year) "hot seating" everyone in character. This means that he asks probing questions of you as your character and really tests how committed you have been to learning the back story of your character and how they would react in all situations. Very helpful. Through no coaxing of his own, we all ended up in an improv together, as a group. We were chatting up a storm with each other and really getting a feel for Greenham, as we know it. The women ended up having a group meeting (at Rhys' suggestion) and the men, as guards, soldiers and policemen, came in to break it up (also by Rhys' hand) and tell us that we weren't allowed to be meeting there at that time. Well, that's when it all got serious. The women became a unit! We linked arms and spirits (cheesy, I know, but true). The men tried to drag us off and we gave them nothing. We gave them dead weight for them to carry off, we clung to each other as if our life depended on it, and it, for all intents and purposes, was Greenham Common. It bonded us like nothing else could have and it was a much needed exercise at an important stage in our rehearsal process. *sigh* I love the theatre...