Act 2 Scene 1, 2 & 3 - Development

Scene 1

The act 2 starts with Van Helsing middle of the stage, with Lucy sleeping on the lower steps, where her bed in act 1 was. We first had Lucy come off-stage in the next scene, but thought, that it would be more convinient to have her on the stage right at the beginning. This scene was mostly planned by Andy and Jenny themselves, whilst everyone else was working on other scenes, so I wont get into too much details of the development of this scene.
   The entire scene consists of Van Helsings monologue, where she talks about her everyday routine followed by the contents of Seward's letter. She starts to prepair for his trip to England, by packing his suitcase, which is shown by Jenny miming, since we have decided as a group to only have props that are absolutely necessary. It would be difficult to have all the props present, since we are all on the stage most of the time, so it would only be awkward to have us fishing out props every two minutes from off-stage or under the steps. As Van Helsing finishes off her monologue, she will step off-stage from her position at the middle of the stage.

Scene 2

Lucy talks to Florrie about her cut off hair, in her near death existence. We follow these two women discuss the hair and then when Florrie starts reciting the letter sent from Mina to Lucy, the chorus will start walking in from all sides of the stage, and behind the audience, in a trans-like manner, as if "they were moths and Lucy was a bright light". We stop at the edges of the audience, creating a sort of circle around the stage and the scene between Lucy and Florrie. We stand there, observing in quiet, until this bit of the conversation:
LUCY. Oh yes... Are we in the madhouse? Maniacs start laughing
FLORRIE. Asylum. Stop laughing. Stoneyfields Asylum for the sick.
LUCY. The madhouse. Start laughter again.
FLORRIE. All the world's a madhouse. Stop and remain in silence for the rest of the scene.
   As the scene ends, the chorus will turn into manic children, playing war games with each other until killing each other off and falling to the ground. Jade came up with this idea, to contrast the quiet chorales beginning of the act 2.

Scene 3

This is quite a simple scene as well. All the maniacs will be on the ground, playing dead, while Grice has his big speech while kicking Renfield with Nisbett observing. They are on their cigarette break talking about how Renfield escaped and how they found him near Carfax calling his master. "Master, master, I'm here to do your bidding. Now that you're near me, do not pass me by." this line Grice is supposed to be quoting from Renfield, but we decided it would be much more effective to gave the chorus whisper line in an eerie welcoming sound. At the end of the scene, the two nurses stub out their smokes and leave the stage. This is when Dracula comes out of the shadows and lifts up Lucy to sitting in her bed. This is also when the chorus will rise from their position to face Dracula and get ready for starting scene 4.