Road Map reminders:
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Sing straight through to the
first ending of letter D (verse 2)
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Repeat Letter C
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Sing verse 3 at Letter D
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Repeat Letter C, jump to the
Coda (the words are “made us all” with “all” only lasting only an eighth note).
Solo 1 begins with the word “Now”.
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Continue to Letter E and sing
through to the end of the piece
Blocking -
General notes:
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when you are walking around, be
sure to use all of the space, and be purposeful in your walking
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think about who your character
might be in the village (you’ve been suffering through storms, there is the
ritual of lighting the fire etc.) and make that clear in the way that you move
around. It’s fine as well for there to be small groups of two or three who
always travel around together.
M. 1
– Letter B – Standing at the back of the stage, mixed (men mostly together, near the centre) on
platforms and on the floor.
Letter
B – Lights come up, you stay where you are
M. 31
(and into Letter C) – Move forward and fill out the
space
Letter
C
“Soal a soal a soal cake” – look at each
other
“Please good missus a soal cake” – STOP, snap
to look at the audience
“an apple…” look at each other again, walk around
: Alan move to downstage right and Jess to downstage, everyone else mill about
until you get to the side & back of the stage by letter D.
Letter
C (second time)
More walking about. End up on the other
side of the stage
“Please good missus a soal cake” STOP, snap
to look at the audience
Continue to mill – then be at the sides of
the stage at Letter D – Sara, Katelyn, two XYE girls, Dorian, Neil and Omercan
at the centre as a family unit.
Letter
C (third time)
Walking!
“Please good missus a soal cake” STOP, snap
to look at the audience
By the end of C, men will be clustered in
the centre near the back, two descant groups in the front on either side of the
fire (Solo1 downstage left, Solo2 downstage right), Sops fill the space on
stage right, Altos fill the space on stage left. Don’t isolate the descant
singers, but they are at the very front. YOU MUST BE HERE ON TIME :-)
Letter
E to the end – Stand and sing
Boadicea - VIDEO
Singers embody the forest. Make sure you
move very smoothly from one formation to the other.
First page of music – XCTE drift onstage
until you are just on the periphery (Sops Stage right, Altos stage left – leave
space near the front of the stage for the men on either side)
M. 10 – Men enter (Tenors DownSR, Basses
DownSL)
Letter A – (FOREST A) Spread out to
sectional mixed scattered formation, but men stay near to each other and near
the front.
M. 29 – 31 Move to FOREST B
Letter B – (FOREST B) Diagonal formation
from USR to DSL. Men will be in the centre of the formation. Sopranos upstage,
Altos downstage. Ariana will walk through this formation. See photos for
standing order.
M. 42 Move to FOREST C
Letter C – (FOREST C) Two lines (groups of
2 or 3) with a channel down the centre – Tenors & Sops SR (Tenors in
front), Basses and Altos SL (Basses in front).
M. 54 Move to FOREST D
Letter D – (FOREST D) Three very close
semicircles around Ariana who will be front and centre. See photos for standing
order, the lines will meet in the centre.
M. 69 Move to FOREST E
Letter E – (FOREST E) Fade very slowly
backward (Sops to USR corner, Altos to USL corner maintaining your positions; Tenors
and Basses also drift back, staying toward the front of the group)
M. 89 – End – Sopranos and Altos slowly
leave the stage, walking backward. After the final chord, Tenors and Basses
fade back as well.
The
Sky and the Dawn and the Sun
Pay attention to the unintuitive rhythms
(e.g. page 4 “so deep”; page 5 “Paradise with me, awake…”
M. 52 – All Sops and Middles sing the top
line
Hanget
Soi
Use the tools that have been provided for
diction and pronunciation :-)
Videos :
I See You
Don't Be Afraid
Videos :
I See You
Don't Be Afraid
