Brechting it down

This was a most irregular conclusion to our week of exams, but also the start of our Brecht work. We also had no school on Tuesday which cut one of the days out of rotation, worked on Bloody Mist, and discussed the Talent show.
Wednesday was the introduction to Brecht's work and in order to do this we are using the piece, the Caucasian Chalk Circle. It about a maid who cares for the abandoned son of an overthrown governor, and than has to deal with a custody lawsuit from the old governor's wife. Its rather similar to the one of King Solomon's stories. We preformed one of the scene in the style of Brecht, with a Narrator and really showing emotion, and than analysed it. My perspective is that while the performance is Stanislavsky child, Brecht's is the message given by the performance. He could care less about the audience enjoying the show, he just wants them to understand his objective.
We stayed after school, til four, this Wednesday as we really need(ed) to start rehearsing Bloody Mist for the Talent show. While most of it worked out, we still have a few issues: 1. We really need to script some scenes to prevent them from running on for to long (or so we have lines) 2. Having an audience 3.Costume and Roles We did have a lot of fun though and I really like the newish creation of the IST (even though its a little out of character) It was a lot of fun though, but we really need to continue practicing before the Talent show.
We also ran into a few issues with the date of the talent show (which forced us to move it forward a day), and got a section of tickets printed out. I really hope that we are moving fast enough though, I would really like to have more than one rehearsal.
Friday, we continued with Brecht. It was mostly practicing his theory of expressing feelings extremely clearly(with little or no vocals). It was difficult to do as while I know how I behave with different emotions, not everyone behaves in the same fashion but the signal has to be clear (and I know for one that I tend to hide my emotions rather than clearly show them).