The cloth 4th November twelfth night

Today's rehearsal was very productive as we came up with lots of interesting setting ideas and uses for props. To day we looked at a specific section of our script just before Olivia talks about her dead brother. We obtained a long red cloth from upstairs and tied it to the set to cover up a shrine we have created on the stage inside the stage blocks. We decided to use this piece of cloth for more than concealing purposes as it is on the stage anyway so why not use it? We looked at Ryan's lines as the clown ;
Two faults, Madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if
he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
that's mended is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.

The cloth is used almost entirely in this speech as we thought it was very funny and made this section of out extract interesting and fun to watch, in the first line we added in a cheap joke where Ryan puts two fingers up to Chloe the authority figure in the piece in a rude and disrespectful way then he turns it into a piece sign and gives her a big grin ad the clown character would do. Next he will pick up the ends of the cloth and place them around hos neck to imitate a royal to show his control and power in the situation as he taunts Olivia. During this speech Ryan works the cloth creating different images to fit the speech and what he does is very lyrical movement. For example on the line "virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue." Ryan created a nun head cover with the cloth and quickly opens it up like a bat on the word "sin." On the line "The lady bade take away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away." Ryan runs across the stage and is choked by the cloth revealing the shrine behind to allow Chloe to come in as her character grieves for her brother.

the cloth is used later on in the piece and still has many opportunities which we are yet to discover.