Rehearsal - Monday 10 March 2014

Yet another thought-provoking session as we came together at the Hippodrome rehearsal space. The group of young men drew their attention to the 'drill' scene to be performed in the car park opposite the theatre on Throp Street. In previous years this building was the old Drill Hall where army ranks used to train and information about this historic building will be included in the scene.  In order for this to be performed 'on site', the audience as well as the actors will need to get to the car park.  The boys were faced with the question of 'how?'  To find out how they resolved the issue, come along to the performance!

W&T Artistic Director Janice Connolly also asked the boys to think about the trenches, focusing on how the soldiers slept and the conditions that all soldiers involved in WWI had to endure - whichever country they were from.  With a wealth of different languages between the group (Greek to French, Russian to Japanese), the boys decided to integrate these within a 'dream scene' to capture the similarity between soldiers of all nationalities.