22/01/23 National connections

 We recently started rehearsing our National Connections production titled as "Old Times". Luckily for me and several other people, I'm in the Script Writing Enrichment Group, where we write our own scripts for another National Connections project, but lucky for us, we also got an early look at the script, we were able to come up with theories on what happens after only reading the first 6 pages and how the script attracts readers into it's writing. 

I've opted out of the characters and into the production team so that I can help put it together and send it off in it's complete form. The people interested in being a character however are doing their hardest for a place in the single cast we're having. They're having to do characterisation research and chemistry tests. Meanwhile production are trying to imagine the set we've got planned, thinking of specific scenes and how we'd organise them, with set, lighting and the overall question of:

How do we show the difference between the younger versions and the older versions of the characters, how do we transition the scenes without it being awkward?

We are yet to answer that, however we've got an idea to do with doorways, as a sort of gate to the past. I've wrote a number of notes including some potential props, including a prop from a previous production, blood brothers, to use a sign for a kebab shop. 

So far the show is going well, and auditions are soon, I've got so much going on and I'm trying to balance it all, one of which being my university auditions, then I've got an out of college film I'm auditioning for, which so far I have high hopes, me and some other people are creating a sitcom that we designed in year one as we're trying to bring it to camera, that begins at the start of February, and finally for the Unknown Theatre Company I got the Lead in the show #YOLO, which we'll be doing in march. I'm trying not to overload myself but I worry I have. I'm sure once my university auditions are done and if I get an offer I can slowly but surely lesson my workload. 

After all, the only way is up, right?