Vacant Room Week Three

Jordan is crying into Alex’s arms.

Alex: We’ll get better at it, we’ll learn, we don’t have any other choice.

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Hey Team,

Third week pretty much done at PACT and it's raining heavily outside. I'm sort of damp and worried that when I leave my computer will get all soaked and the play will be lost (along with everything else). Maybe I'll wrap it in a plastic bag before I go, or just leave it locked up at PACT and collect it tomorrow. I don't know.

It's been a good week and the play is taking shape, and not just in our brains either, actually on paper and on the floor too. It's exciting. Act One and Two are pretty much first drafted, with Three very close. Some of those ethical problems we were struggling with last week now exist in the work too as a kind of strange narration, interrupting the play at one point. No solutions, no answers but if we can get a tiny fragment of the brain crisis we've been going through into the play then that might be enough, we'll see.

I've probably learnt the most about writing, development, performance, drama and how they work in our practice this week, thus the excerpt from the play above. Although the experience is far more uplifting than that might suggest.

We also used TVs and flouros and wet people this week, not just chalk squares anymore.

Mark x