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Ello ello! Here is part 2 of a series of videos from our research and development! 

This scene introduces Peter as a baby as well as a larger than life character called Celia! Check it out!

Apologies for the delay in this post appearing on tumblr.

Tuesday 5th February

Hello, hello!

Our rehearsal this week saw the beginnings of a whole new scene! The scene introduces Rachel's younger brother Peter when he is still a baby. It's quite a light-hearted scene and was certainly lots of fun to act out. I won't give too much away but it features a character called Celia who is, well, a bit bonkers really. She takes the 'baby voice' to a whole new level.

We did a condensed run through of all of the scenes we have, with a maximum of 1 minute per scene. This didn't go 100% smoothly but it is always really helpful to identify what the most important parts of the scenes are.

We also drew some tension graphs. If you don't know what these are, it's basically a graph or map of the tension and pace of your piece. We thought about what the tension graph would look like for each of our individual characters. It has many uses but it basically prompts you to look at where the tension and changes of pace occur in your piece at present in comparison to where you want it to be, whilst also helping to focus the direction of the piece.

If you have any questions or just want to say hi, you can tweet us at @noplasticwheels

Hello and welcome to the first ever No Plastic Wheels blog post! What on earth is “No Plastic Wheels?", I hear you ask! We are an emerging theatre company specialising in devised ensemble performances. The production we are currently working on is based around OCD.

Our last rehearsal was an interesting one. We had intended to film some clips of our upcoming production but arrived to find that the door to the lights room was locked and the heaters were loudly blowing hot air. After unsuccessfully searching the entire premises for the caretaker, we decided to crack on and postpone filming for next week. We started by discussing logos, leaflets and posters and the following picture was the outcome. I think it is fair to say that we won’t be using this as our logo, though I must admit to rather liking the concept of a turtle with a moustache, zooming around on roller-skates.  

We worked on developing two of our scenes and took some pictures. Here are a few of us working with puppets:

 Expect lots more photos, posts and video footage from us very soon! 

You can keep up to date with what we're doing and details of our production on here, on our Twitter page: @NoPlasticWheels and on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NoPlasticWheels . Feel free to say hi, we'd love to hear from you :)