March 2016 – Page 2

March 3, 2016Emily Cooksey No Comments

Script Writing

After some deliberation, we have now completed a scene breakdown that the entire company is happy with and have been allocated individual scenes to write for the 9^th of March, after which we will edit the script as a team to ensure character voices are consistent and scenes flow correctly from one to the next.

Scene One – Chris O’Donoghue

Scene Two – Lauren Towell

Scene Three – Chris O’Donoghue

Scene Four – Zach Begg

Scene Five – Lauren Towell

Scene Six – Chris Petit

Scene Seven – Emily Cooksey

Scene Eight – Zach Begg and Emily Cooksey

Scene Nine – Chris Petit

The method we have chosen to write the script should yield efficient results as we will hopefully be able to produce a full script in a week, however, we are anticipating further work on the script will be required. We hope to have a finalised script by the 23^rd of March.

March 3, 2016Lauren Alice Towell No Comments

hit the ground running

Railcard theatre

Since forming Railcard Theatre a few weeks ago we have hit the ground running. Together we have formed an idea that is really started to take shape both on the page and on the stage. We have a fantastic cast of actors playing a wide range of characters, some whom our audiences will love and some whom they will hate. Personally I have gone into this process with a hand in every aspect of the creative process. I’m part of the production team as set and props, as well as lending a hand on the writing team, and being on stage as one of our ensemble of performers.

This week we have been pulling everything together nicely. The set has been finalised which meant we could start blocking out exits and entrances for each character in their scenes, as well as seeing what space we have to play with in every scene. Our script is really starting to take shape, with our team of writers each penning two or three scenes from which we will compile our favourite moments to create an hour long performance. We’re only days away from having our finalised script which means that our performers, including myself, can really get stuck into their characters.

March 2, 2016Christopher Lee Petit No Comments

Marketing and script creation

Over the last few weeks, we at railcard have been planning our marketing strategy and after discussing our project with the marketing manager of the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre we started to work on creating a poster and a name for our piece. We decided originally on the working title, “How to: Adult” however this didn’t fully reflect the show that we were looking to perform so after discussions with the full cast we settled on the name “Ungraded”.

With this in place it was time to begin working on the shows poster where we were able to hire out a space that reflect the environment we want to set our piece in. While there we were also able to take cast headshots ready to use in the future.

We have also started writing the script delegating scenes to certain people to write where we will then all re-join and adjust scenes to match what each other has written so we can take the best of hat each person has written and include that in each character.