When it came to putting all three pieces together in our last few rehearsals, it required a lot of patience and self-composure. Focus was not there at the beginning and it would take a very long time to finish going over just one section and some of us worried about how the performance would go because if we couldn't get through one rehearsal without having to wait for silence and focus, we can't rehearse the whole piece and be confident in what we were doing.
Watching the other two sections was interesting because they represented how differently everyone was affected by the war, Soldiers went through the journey of bravery and thinking war was going to be a breeze, to doubting themselves to breaking down, dying or going back home and being scarred for life.
The couples represented the bond between husband and wife/boyfriend and girlfriend with a lot of movement. It was just intimacy and watching the individual couples together was sweet because they'd put aside personal lives and worked on making their duets/group piece believable.
When it came to doing dress and tech runs, the focus had started to show it's face again as it was taken slightly more serious by some but there was joking around backstage, a loss of focus by those on the rostra and some parts were forgotten on confused with others. But as the performance came closer, the piece naturally came together and some faith was restored.
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