As the title suggests, the group have been practising and ardently rehearsing the show. Nope, I'm not sharing any details now, so close to performance date, but I will divulge that it is looking great. The piece is a product of dark visuals contrasted with wordy, but fascinating text. Simon is still inciting the group to read text-y lines as though the words are real. We don't want the piece to be monotonous with the audience falling asleep in-between the visual sections, so it's interesting that the group continue to read lines as though they are narrating. However this improves all the time and once the group have learnt their lines off by heart, it will be much easier to direct the young people to inflect life and thought into their words.
Next week, the young people are rehearsing at Leeds Town Hall in costume and organisers/contributors of the exhibition will be observing. Although we are on target thereabouts in terms of progress through the script having rehearsed each section, it puts Simon, Anthony and I under some pressure to organise the group and piece together each scene. The problems that may arise could be lack of concentration due to the excitement of rehearsing in Leeds Town Hall, forgetting lines (or not having attempted to learn lines at all) and forgetting props or costume. In light of this, I'm going to play some fun games based on concentration at the start of the rehearsal to get everybody focused.
I still feel a surge of adrenaline/panic every time I think about the tasks yet to be completed for the show (could just be the quantity of coffee consumed), but I am so excited for the 25th and 27th of January to roll along so that the group can perform and to see the exhibition. Everyone's hard work will undoubtedly pay off, not only from Anthony, Simon and the group; but also academics and researchers.
Remember to book your tickets via Matt Boswell at rsvptransholomemory@gmail.com
and to check out https://twitter.com/TransHoloMemory for updates on the conference.
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