Wednesday 14th

Ok so again something happened causing a member of out cast unable to attend out rehearsals, but that didnt stop us. Today we tried out 100% best to do a full run without the member who was missing and it went pretty well. Scnene 10 is also not properly set. In the afternoon we were supposed to be performing but unfortunately one of our members couldnt make it, so me alex and david decided we would go into the commen room and try our best to run mine and alexs argument. There were one or two lines me and alex were struggling to remember, but david managed to help drill them into our heads. Tomorrow.....finally......WE GET TO PERFORM

Tuesday the 13th

Due to unforseen circumstances we decided that we would set out exactly where the cells will be marked out and also sorted out our own costumes. This wasnt the most productive rehearsal but we did get two vital things out the way. Tomorrow we will do a full run.

Monday the 12th

This monday we decided our time would be best blocking jack (caesar) into the few scenes he is in. Me alex and harry also went off to ran our argument a few times and re set it into the round and also tried to bring more dynamics and levels into the scene. The schedule for the week was to do a full run on tuesday, trouble shoot wednesday morning and run wednesday afternoon, and the rest of the week would be determined by how the run went.

Rehearsal schedule from the 25th to the 9th

OH MY BALLS I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS BLOGGER IN TWO FRECKIN WEEKS!!!!. So lets get this show on the road ;) So overall these past two weeks we have had some extreme up and downs, our piece is finally a strong piece, and we have managed to get all of the interrogations done, we only need to block Caesar into marc anthonys interrogation. We have decided that we will be having 5 cells and a separate interigation room as apose to having a joint cell and interigation room. The whole piece is there now its just rehearsals now, GO TEAM CAESAR!!

Wednesday 24th

Today i missed a massive chunk of the rehearsal due to unforeseen circumstances. When i did eventually get to college, the group told me they had spoke about the fact that we needed to let the audience know more about Caesar. We decided to find a Speech from a powerful dictator and use that as a voice over at the beginning of the piece to set the scene and almost show what Caesar is like. We decided to use an Adult Hitler speech because they are extremely powerful speeches and with a little tweeking, it worked really well.

Tuesday 22nd

We had a really relaxed day. We mainly just decided what we were going to do this week. We worked out what things we needed to work on, and, because some people are missing this week we decided how we were going to work around it.

17th April (Work shop with alex....i loved his hair)

Omg i have put this on the blog so so late, half terms been sick. Anyways, on the 17th we had an amazing workshop with alex. I personally feel this has really helped us to progress the piece and move it along. We also started to realize that in our piece, we wont be using much text atall, the physicality is showing the emotions well enough that words are not needed. Personally my favorite interrogation scene so far is.........insert drum role here........ ALL OF THEM :P:P:P.  Each scene has its own individuality. Octaviouses shows more of the high racky of Cinna, which helps show how powerful she is and force the fact that hes the youngest. The Cassius scene helps us to show everyone's feelings towards Cassius in a very vicious and physical way. Portia's scene is beautiful, It is so so simple, but probably the most affective scene at this time. Mark Anthonys shows his quiet and timid side. Although its needs a little more work it will progress really quickly now as we have a great basis for it. The only interrogation we haven't started yet is brutuses but i personally feel it shouldnt be to hard to come up with an idea as we now have a great vocabulary of work. OMG IDEA PEOPLE!!!! We could recreate the Portia scene (The triangle) and change the intention, so we could have Brutus being scared, cinna nailing him down, and Cassius behind brutus manipulating him into admitting he delivered the final blow. Its an idea, i dont have many, so its  big thing for me.

TEAM WOLVES........ wait this is Shakespeare now........ TEAM CAESAR!!!!

Rehearsals since the 21st of march

As you can see I have not done a rehearsal log since the 21st march. So I decided to do one to cover what we have done. In these past weeks we have done fear work shops and tulley esc exercise. We have completed out pitches and we personally feel they went really well. We also have a general structure of our piece. Interrogations scenes are strong we just need to make up script for them. And we have came up with a prison cell scene using white tape and ribbon to mark out the prisons and relationships.

Lovely ideas

http://www.shmoop.com/julius-caesar/cassius.html -  Just ready this and i had the idea of during brutuses interrogation scene, cinna could mention cassius inciting brutus to kill ceasar, we could have cassius as a presence in the room speaking over what there saying, we could use the lines in the link i have poster.

March 21st

Today we finished off the order of our pitch and also sorted out our opening paragraph.we also work shopped two ideas for Julius where cinna is intimidating the 5 accused in the same room. The mug Shot idea is now set.we just have to look into what detectives would actually ask the accuses to make the speech in the scene more realistic. We decided we will be using the accused speaking in Shakespeare and cinna mostly in modern English.

20th March

Ok so we decided we would play cluedo to help us look onto the way mysterys and investigations were set out. After playing we realised that with the investigation end interrogation scenes we would need evidence to bring the piece to life a little more. After I was shown wat the others did in the rehearsal yesterday which I missed. Do much of it was physical theatre driven and today we played with maybe using the others to try and intimidate the victims more.

Brutus idea

Had a bit of a weird vision. In the character description Brutus is basically wrote as someone who is told what to do. We could almost had him a bit oblivious to what's going on. We could almost be refusing to answer because theres no one there to tell him what to do.

Inspiration from "Of mice and men" by John Steinbeck

Themes

Themes ( for the actual play ) I have put * next to the ones I feel we use/Will use

Fate verses free will*
Public self verses private self*
Misinterpretations and misreading's *
Inflexibility versus Compromise
Rhetoric and Power*
Omens and Portents
Letters*
Symbols
Women and Wives

Octavious

Spark notes
Octavius -  Caesar’s adopted son and appointed successor. Octavius, who had been traveling abroad, returns after Caesar’s death; he then joins with Antony and sets off to fight Cassius and Brutus. Antony tries to control Octavius’s movements, but Octavius follows his adopted father’s example and emerges as the authoritative figure, paving the way for his eventual seizure of the reins of Roman government.

Just accuse him of wanting his fathers power. There we can get in the theme of power, and maybe some jealousy in there.

Portia

Spark notes
Portia -  Brutus’s wife; the daughter of a noble Roman who took sides against Caesar. Portia, accustomed to being Brutus’s confidante, is upset to find him so reluctant to speak his mind when she finds him troubled. Brutus later hears that Portia has killed herself out of grief that Antony and Octavius have become so powerful.

Not sure on this character, possibly accuse her of doing it for her husband?

Brutus

Spark notes
Brutus -  A supporter of the republic who believes strongly in a government guided by the votes of senators. While Brutus loves Caesar as a friend, he opposes the ascension of any single man to the position of dictator, and he fears that Caesar aspires to such power. Brutus’s inflexible sense of honor makes it easy for Caesar’s enemies to manipulate him into believing that Caesar must die in order to preserve the republic. While the other conspirators act out of envy and rivalry, only Brutus truly believes that Caesar’s death will benefit Rome. Unlike Caesar, Brutus is able to separate completely his public life from his private life; by giving priority to matters of state, he epitomizes Roman virtue. Torn between his loyalty to Caesar and his allegiance to the state, Brutus becomes the tragic hero of the play.

Cinna could say something like "We all know that you would pick the better from Rome Over your loyalty to your friend"

Mark anthony

Spark notes
Antony -  A friend of Caesar. Antony claims allegiance to Brutus and the conspirators after Caesar’s death in order to save his own life. Later, however, when speaking a funeral oration over Caesar’s body, he spectacularly persuades the audience to withdraw its support of Brutus and instead condemn him as a traitor. With tears on his cheeks and Caesar’s will in his hand, Antony engages masterful rhetoric to stir the crowd to revolt against the conspirators. Antony’s desire to exclude Lepidus from the power that Antony and Octavius intend to share hints at his own ambitious nature.

In the interrogation scenes we could use the fact that mark Anthony turned the people of Rome against Brutus. We could use it in a way like "You obviously wanted to make the people of Rome hate Brutus so the blame is shifted away from you"

Cassius evidence

Spark notes -
Cassius -  A talented general and longtime acquaintance of Caesar. Cassius dislikes the fact that Caesar has become godlike in the eyes of the Romans. He slyly leads Brutus to believe that Caesar has become too powerful and must die, finally converting Brutus to his cause by sending him forged letters claiming that the Roman people support the death of Caesar. Impulsive and unscrupulous, Cassius harbors no illusions about the way the political world works. A shrewd opportunist, he proves successful but lacks integrity.

I would like to use the letters as evidence against Cassius. This way we can stay true to the story and also have more layers in the piece.

Court scene

BOOM new idea. Last scene, like a court scene as we've been thinking. Maybe we could have brutus on one balcony, even though hes dead, as a kinda ghost, cassius on the other, and julius outside the like sound an light room? If they are there present as ghosts it might just be a been freaky.

Death ideas

Just been thinking about some nice and powerful scenes we could use. One the ideas i had was while siners talking a gun shot could go off, her and the audience go to investigate and either cassius or brutus is laying there with a gun next to them in a pool of blood. The other idea i had would be she goes to talk to brut or cas and she opens the door of the cell and hes lying, the sink slightely over flowing with blood coming from his mouth and covering his shirt with a bottle of bleach next to him with a letter confessing the murder. Then there is cctv evidence of mark anthony convincing them to kill themselves. This means we can use the idea of them commiting suicidde and a kind of interpritation of the war in the script.

Death scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmMQN0AMk7k  <-- possibly use stuff like this for ceasars death ;)

Wall Street Crash

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/76/economics/wall-street-crash-1929/  <-- the link i used. So my general idea of the wall street crash is that People were paying a certain amount of moneys for shares knowing they would make money. Banks were also giving them big loans to buy these shares. This meant that when the stock markets crashed banks didnt get their loans payed back to them, so banks went it to dept, and the people who had shares of the stocks would also be losing a lot of money. This made people have to start living in kinda of shack towns, houses made out of little bits of wood and tin roofs. Now if we made ceasar the head of the buisness, Brutus his right hand man, And Cassius and the rest of the conspitarors as his workers, we could do the play as if ceasar is losing money from his buisness so has needed to fire workers and cut their pay to save himself, he is trying to do the best for the buisness but going the wrong way about it, you see what im saying ;) That way he keep the general story but fix it with an issue wich still effects us today..... P.s, OMG IM ACTUALLY RESEARCHING, i think im ill.....

Ceasar Story

http://www.shmoop.com/julius-caesar/summary.html This is just a link i found which explains the story of ceasar in a way literally anyone can understand, it its a bit vague so obviously i will need to look more at the script, but i feel its a good starting point to get a gist on the play.

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