11/052022 Blood Brothers Superstition/Rehearsal

 We started the day as usual, except instead of doing a warmup we went straight into learning about superstitions and Its Effect on the blood brothers' performance as It's vital throughout the show. Considering shoes on the table are mentioned near the start of it, and Mrs Lyons makes up a superstition to manipulate Mrs Johnston when she realises she's superstitious, being that if Mickey and Eddie learned they were twins, they would die. And at the end of the show, they discover they're twins and they die, proving that superstition is a large part of it. After we learned more about it, we were given a task to make an improvised sketch based on superstition. So we were split into teams of 5. After some thought on what I and my group could do, we decided on the whistling one, believed to be where if you whistle indoors it attracts demons to you. We made it so that me and Jamie were the workers, and Morgan, Daniel and Jason were the demons coming for us. They'd surround us and whisper in our ears or breathe on our necks things that would really creep someone out if it happened to them. Jamie then tells me to keep whistling while he sketches the demon he saw, I manage to make out a small sound but mostly breath so I cover my face as if I've seen one of them, and then they reveal themselves where we both sprint away. 

We then lead on to normal rehearsals where we went over the final scene of the show, as the play starts with how the final scene is set out, we tried rehearsing the final scene. Mickey And Eddie worked on their deaths, timing the jump and the fall, including everyone working on the choreography of it, including me. My choreography wasn't linked with everyone's, I just had to make sure I wasn't in the way, but also make sure I time my part right. As when everyone had left the scene except for Mrs Johnston, I'm supposed to help her up gently, watch her for a moment, as though she actually sees me, before walking away. I think It's a fairly powerful moment as It shows that the narrator, the metaphor for the devil, leaves her after his work is finished, after he saw the two brothers pass Mrs Johnston is overcome with an immense feeling of pain and loss, he leaves, only helping her stand after. I wanted to stand behind Mrs Lyons when she confronts the three of them, as though the devil's fueling her with the negative emotions she's feeling, almost tempting her to kill the brothers such as he did with Adam and Eve.