Rehearsals

Rehearsals with my group for scenes...
The scene I am in is a very powerful and strong scene. I am in a group with Lucy, Unis, Chloe, Heta and Greta.
It involves a lot of events that shape the characters for who they are.
My character has a very strong aura about her and I feel the other girls, particularly Mrs Farley and Nell, confide in her and look up to her.
In this scene my character has to perform an abortion on Mrs Farley, which is an extremely emotional event for the characters and the audience, and it has to be performed just right in order to portray the realness and seriousness of it.
Mrs Farley asks my character, Mrs Marshall to perform the abortion, she looks directly at her and says " I want you to do it, please" My character is clearly shocked by this, that it is asked of her to do it and not anyone else, but my character keeps very cool and goes through with it. She almost seems heartless at some points, as how could someone take on that responsibility? She could be putting Mrs Farleys life on the line, but she knows that it could end up in the theatre being closed down, which would mean all the women would be out of work, and the one thing they need the most is money, as what else is there at that time?
Mrs Farley cannot go through with the abortion, and she knows that all the while she is pregnant with the Kings child she is not welcome in the theatre and the women almost disown her. My character does not look at her or make eye contact afterwards, I feel she is disappointed in Farley and feels betrayed. I believe she feels that she tried to help Farley but she threw it back in her face by not going through with it, and this has hurt her and she feels maybe embarrassed by the fact that she tried to perform an abortion on her and she dismisses it, this is a very serious event for Mrs Marshall and afterwards she appears very bitter and downtrodden by Farley. My character ends the scene with the line " A petticoat never saved anyone" 
This is after Farley has tried to sell her petticoat, in order to get some money before she leaves the theatre, as she will need every penny she can get if she does have the baby, research does not tell me if she ever did keep the baby or if the King knew about it. My character is trying to spite Farley out of bitterness, by saying a petticoat is not going to save her from this situation, she will be alone and unemployed. I think all the women are mainly thinking about their own well-being within the theatre company and just want Farley away from their empire, as she could jeopardise their careers by being pregnant.

In this scene myself and my group are thoroughly focusing on the character relationships and the movement within the piece. We all have our own individual ways of moving around the stage, and every character definitely has their own personality we have created from research and reading the script, and having group discussions about the play and the characters. I feel that My character and Lucys character; Farley have a bitter-sweet relationship, I feel in a way my character feels sorry for her but will not show it entirely and Farley confides in Marshall, especially in my 2nd scene, which is set BEFORE this scene. Marshall and Farley have a scene together at the beginning and tehy are discussing what they did the night before and what they got up to. This scene portrays two friends gossiping and talking about men, which appears to be friendly and humorous. So the relationship between these two characters is definitely there, but the abortion scene tarnishes their estranged friendship, as Marshall has tried to help her but Farley has shunned it, so I feel this is the end of their friendship.
My character does not really have a relationship with Doll, they never really speak to each other, but Doll keeps herself to herself and she is almost part of the furniture. Mrs Betterton and my character I feel are kind of in sync with each other, Betterton is the boss of the women and holds the higher status, and I feel my character is aspiring to be like her and is next in line, as my research tells me that Marshall was a very respected and loyal employee and was always given great parts in plays and was kept on for a very long time. Therefore the relationship between My character and Betterton is very professional, not neccersarily emotional or friendly, but I feel my character knows she is boss and is always by her side, agreeing with her.
Lastly, my character and Nell. In my second scene, my character is very horrible to Nell and makes her look a fool on stage and expresses how she does not feel Nell " is a natural" on stage and tries to isolate her from the other girls. In this scene, Nell and Marshall do not really talk, but when they do they have a laugh together. I feel in this scene Marshall has accepted her into the group and has gotten used to Nell's comical personality.

So far rehearsals are going well, I feel as a group we have great complicity with each other and we all value each others opinions, we frequently have discussions about how we feel the scene is going we rehearse together whenever we can.