Act 1 Scene 9

In most of the scenes, we had a lot of trouble and found things hard, however, scene 9 we had loads of trouble working on because we didn't know how to do the lifts and what we could all be doing.

After working on the lifts with Su, we kept on practising them so we knew they were safe and everyone was okay doing them.
We tried two different lifts with Izzy-(who was playing Lucy). The first lift we tried out was one where she was laying down and she had five people holding her, two on her legs, two on her upper body and one on her head. This didn't work so well as Izzy didn't feel comfortable doing it, also it's stopped the audience from seeing her face. The next lift we tried with Izzy was her stood up and two people holding her feet together and two behind her supporting her back, she also sat comfortably on their shoulders. This lift worked a lot better because the audience could see her face, she felt a lot more comfortable with it and also it gave Izzy a lot more freedom to make herself as irresistible to Jonathon as possible. In the end Izzy started moving her arms, pulling Jonathon towards her with a force by moving her arms. Also, Izzy had all of the vampire brides carrying her and if they weren't carrying her, they were following.

 With Heta's-(Jonathon) lift, it was just like Izzy's lift.

We didn't know how we'd all come onto stage either, for scene nine. But someone came up with the great idea of all of the boys-(including the two Renfields) on stage left, just behind the curtains and the girls-(vampire brides) on stage right behind the curtains. Then, one boy and one vampire bride would walk out at the same time, meet in the centre, link arms and walk down the steps and be stood opposite each other on the opposite sides of the step stage. Then when everyone was down, Sophia-(Mina) would lay on the bottom step on the stage, as if she was sleeping. Then, using complicity, we'd all raise our hand, which is closest to the audience and the stroke it down our necks, then after a beat the boys heads would drop to the side and then they all collapse at the same time.
 Jonathon would be on the bottom step of the stage.

Also, in this scene we managed to get some Artaud in. When the vampire brides and the men are walking to centre stage, we made it so the men were in a trance, by the vampires unnerving beauty.