St.Margarets Church.

Unfortunately, due to no available evening dates at Rochester Cathedral we were unable to use this venue for our site-specific. However, straight away Miss Cordell was able to give us a secure and definite space at 'St.Margaret's Church' which is just down the road from our school and we are fortunate to have school connections with them.
When we found out that this venue was given to us we were so glad that we still kept a religious aspect as we thought it would help us create a really strong piece that differs from the others we have done over the last two years.

Below are some images of our new venue:

 To the left is an image of what the main altar and pews look like from the perspective of being at the back of the church. Most of our performance is portrayed in this area and is a very open and big space which is what we liked about it most. It enabled us to create scenes with physical theatre, dance and movement as there is a lot of space that can be used within this area. For example, some of our scenes take place on the main altar, however, other people may be standing in the aisles as well. 

To the right is an image of what is on the right side of the altar. As you can see there is a pulpit in which people of the congregation at church use to read the readings and psalms. We use this at the very beginning of our piece where Kieran is standing in it whilst reciting a prayer and reassuring our extras and of course the audience of what is happening outside as the beginning everyone walks into a very frantic, panicked atmosphere. 


After visiting the church I was really pleased what the church had to offer. It had a lot of spaces we could potentially use and although there were some restrictions, for example, not allowed to use the choir loft or the music room at the very back we were still happy with what was left and infact was inspired by what appeared to be in the different areas. For example, the room that Jay and I claim to be only ours was chosen because we were really inspired by the statues and stained glass window and really wanted to incorporate a scene using both these elements. Furthermore, we also thought that this area would be really effective for us because the window appears to be colourful, beautiful and bright which of course contrasts with mine and Jay's lifestyle of being 'Squatters'. 

Overall, we were really pleased and enthusiastic after visting this church that when we went to visit we made sure we took plenty of pictures and as soon as we got back to school we put them up on a powerpoint presentation and wrote down words in which we connoted from the picture. This then strongly helped us to devise scenes through inspiration of the spaces which then helped us to create characters.