Act 2 Scene 16

This scene isn't very long as we all cut lines out of it because Nisbett and Grice had to carry Renfield around and they didn't want to run out of things to do.

Before we started with this scene, we got a safety mat, because I was going to be getting thrown about and we didn't want to risk any serious injuries.

At first we were just practising what they were going to be doing with my dead body, the first thing we tried, and decided to keep was they'd hold my legs and my arms and carry me up to the top of the steps onto the stage and then put me down. After that they both grabbed an arm each and dragged me up so I was standing up nearly-(still holding me up) and the Harry-(Grice) would then put me over his shoulder in a fireman carry. They then walked around a little bit and he'd then put me down and quickly push me towards Michelle-(Nisbett) before I fell to the ground and then they'd keep on pushing me to one another and then they laid me down and walk off, after a couple of beats they run back on, grab my arms and drag me off stage.

Where we decided what we were going to be doing in this scene before we started doing it, it was pretty straight forward, however. we had to make a few tweaks and decide on queues for when they'd pick me up, push me to one another etc.

The first queue was Grice's first line "Would you credit it?" and that's when they'd lift me up and start carrying me to the top of the stage.
Then the next one was "Sewage pipes..." that's when they'd lift me up so I was in a standing position, Grice then puts me over his should when he says "must've gone berserk...". After they went off stage and say "But hey, I will miss ya' Renfield" a beat after that they run back on to come grab me and take me off stage.

This scene was so hard to keep a straight face in and not take any of my weight, as I find it scary when people are lifting me and throwing me about everywhere because I worry that I'm too heavy and I have to have a lot of trust in the people doing it. It took me quite a while before I stopped caring about them taking my weight and trusting them not to drop me. But when we were rehearsing it, they made sure that they were fully focussed on the scene which made me feel a lot more safer.