So today we had our technical rehearsal and as we don’t actually have any tech it was our chance to see the space, to play with our final layout and to test our back up plans in case of no audience members.  We got a lot achieved today, after our meeting last night and the feedback I got in my tutorial with Michael, we made our changes and worked on making sure the piece was good enough with all the last minure changes we had made.  We reduced the audience members by taking out some of our chairs, I wish we had done this sooner!  We used envelopes and our clocks and set out the space.

At this point we had to decide how we were going to distribute envelopes.  This is a conversation that we have had many, many times before and the decision had continued to, to and fro.  We decided FINALLY today that we would have envelopes on chairs already and we would simply remove them from chairs to suit the number of audience members we had.

Today we also had a jar to put batteries in which we describe as a gradual and discreet installation.  The point of it is to symbolise the idea of stopping time and preserving what is happening here in this room, in this building.

We were also very fortunate today that we got an audience of class members to sit in our performance so we could see that everything was running properly, we also got some last minute feedback and suggestions as to how we could frame the performance and put it in more context, also how we could tidy up the ending a little.  This being said, the response overall was very positive and we are very excited (all be it a little nervous) about next week!