Working on music for the play 14/11/16

In today's lesson, we decided to work on scene 3 and since a few of us were not in this scene, we were given specific tasks to do for the play. Me and Henri have been assigned to write the music for the play and our first task was to work on the first song, which is kind of Mother Courage's entrance song. Miss Cordell told us that she wants it be quite rocky and upbeat, with a live band onstage including me (guitar) and Henri (Bass guitar) - I am really excited for this because it will give me my first actor-musician experience which is what I aspire to pursue as a career. When writing the song we came up with a number of possible guitar/bass riffs, but we decided to go with one that has quite a punk feel to it, and is definitely a track that not only really opens the character of Mother Courage, but also sets the feel of the show right at the start; this also adds a sense of Brechtirian atmosphere to the play because the audience think they're coming to watch a 'standard' play, but then get given with this fierce, rocky, punk opening song that really takes the audience by surprise - it's just another reminder that it is not reality, it is just a play (especially because I randomly pull a guitar out of nowhere!).