Alison.

  When researching into my character I took notes about her in general. She is from a privallged background, she most likely went to a boarding school (maybe this is why she went against her parents wishes of not marrying Jimmy, she would of been away from them for so long being taught how to be 'proper', she might of wanted to rebel against them from this). It was probably also an all girls school so when she got out that would have been one of her first few motives, to find a boy to date. She would have hardly ever interacted with a male and most go for the 'bad boy' so Jimmy really fitted that catagory, hated by the parents and treats her badly (quite clearly rebelling). However we see that because of all of this, Jimmy actually then resents her for being given everything on a silver spoon. She was brought up probably the opposite of how he was brought up and he is quite jealous of this and possibly confused as to how he then has her and maybe brings all this out in anger towards her. This to me shows exactly what type of people they all are, Alison did expect everything and now she is in the opposite situation she hates it and hates others because of it but mainly herself for acting the way she previously did.

Super objective

  This is what my character actually wants to achieve, what they want to have a result of by the end of the play. For Alison's super objective, I would say that there are many options of what she really wants:

1.) For her to be with Cliff with no hassle and to never see Jimmy again.

2.) For her parents to accept her husband and for him to act kindly in the way that he should towards her.

3.) For her to start a new life, leave everyone behind and just turn a new leaf.

However she does know that any of these decisons come with a lot of risks too. Option one's risk would be that Jimmy would obviously have a lot to say about this and possibly ask her to change her mind when he knows what he has done to her, feeling bad and begging for forgiveness. In this situation I can then imagine her to forget her super objective and stay with Jimmy, only for things to go back to normal or maybe worse and he could resent her more for this option. Option two would hardly ever happen, I would say that this is the biggest super objective that is most likely not to ever happen. Although Alison's father in a way accepts Jimmy and his daughters decision to marry him, her mother will probably never like him or her decision to be with him, let alone marry him. Option three could happen and has the biggest probability that it could actually happen, however I think that she knows that she would secretly miss her old life and end up going back. She would then have failed her super objective and just be back to square one. Overall I would say that her main super objective would be for her life to be a lot easier in every aspect that it is for her. She wants peace, she wants to be seen as an individual for once not just from one person and to be respected too. I doubt that this could happen but I would say that these are her super objectives, impossible or not!

  In the practical sessions of rehearsals, I would say that we are running quite smoothly. We are doing well and jelling as a group, we have changed and moved around a few things too, for example we were always struggling on how to portray the reveal of pregnancy in rehearsals. We came up with many ideas but none were really good enough for this important section. We had to think of something that wasn't soap opera and had realism, but was still captivating and eye catching. Throwing around ideas, we came up with me to walk away from Cliff and say it without looking at him in embarressment. This was quickly changed to more of a bigger movement, dragging it out and making it more powerful and real. We then thought it would be a good idea to have the two characters dancing like in the previous but with Alison instead of Jimmy showing what type of person Cliff is and also how he reacts with certain sitations. This would then lead to the news of pregnancy in such a fluster it would be a shock to the audience and also Cliff. This would get a reaction from the audience and make them think more about the characters and the situation that they are in, feeling more emotion for them and also have more of a final judgement on them all with how they deal with certain things.

  We then started to block the added on bit at the end of the performance that we needed to add in to make it the time that it needed to be of 10 minuites. When thinking about what to do here, most of it was really simple as it was just after Cliff had been told the news and how he was dealing with it but because he deals with it so calmly it was easy to block with simple actions and movements. We did also think about how Alison would react to his calmness, she would be embarressed in herself, confused at the lack of reaction and also maybe sad that a little bit of the bond between her and Cliff could have been jepadised with the lack of commitment from her, especially with this big news. In the end we came up with different things for different lines, such as when Cliff says straight after her telling him the big news he says "I'll need some scissors." This would leave Alison confused and slightly agitated with the lack of expression from Cliff. We then decided as a group that Cliff could be slightly different with his once crushed on Alison, he might feel slightly betrayed that he has warned her and now she has sort of gone against him. He might see that as mallicous just like how Jimmy is, but in the end he does bow down to his real feelings and try to eventually comfort her again. We have got some more blocking to do but for now this is what we have and with the time that we have left I have great confidence in the fact that we will add the bit on that we need to and it will run smoothly too.