Week 2 - Tuesday

More music in the morning. There's a great piece which runs into the scene on the railway carriage, where parts of the opening number are heard again, but this time broken up by bits of underscoring that give a sense of the accelerating train and the squad's journey in to the unknown. It's very atmospheric, but quite complex with various shifts in pace etc. so we spent a fair while getting a sense of the shape of it.

In the afternoon we started setting the dance for the opening number. It's going to be great fun when we've got it, but for now it's a bit of a brain squeezer for me because I'm dancing, singing and playing all at the same time. Crikey. We also watched a documentary together about the 'emergency' in post-war Malaya which is the context for our play. Fascinating stuff, and it was good to have a reminder of just what it was like for people to be living with their lives constantly in danger.