In todays rehearsals, my group decided to focus on our characters, where they are in their lives before the storm and shipwreck. We also discussed the relationship status between our characters. Our characters used to be a tight group of close friends, but they would have not been in touch for a while. All of their lives would have been slowly drifting apart because each of them would have started to focus more on their futures or themselves than the group. This sailing trip would be kind of a 'reunion', a old tradition our characters are trying revive after a year of not properly seeing each other.
To figure out what each one of our characters have been doing for the past year, we played a version of the 'hot seat'- game, where we asked questions from each other in character and improvised the answers. I found out that character Vera has been travelling in America after dropping out of university. During her travels, Vera has tried to find herself, but as she said during the game, 'the travelling hasn't taken her anywhere'. It seems that after returning to England, she has found herself in the same situation as before she left on her travels, a bit list and without meaning. Still, this doesn't seem to depress Vera too much, since she keeps doing things like work, rather than swimming in selfpity. What the travelling did do to her, was to make her question something in her previous way of life, like if her friends are so close to her anymore or is it time to move on?
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