Rehearsals...

Our group is working very well during class and we are getting the majority of the tasks done, however we have not yet done our technical rehearsal because someone is always absent in our group and our group becomes quite easily distracted. Also, not everybody knows all of their lines yet which is a problem since the performance date is coming up soon, our group needs to start working efficiently during class as well as outside of class and needs to have a full run through with tech and all to see how it is coming together.
The make-up designs are slowly being completed and are all good for strengthening the characters of everyone and for enhancing the play's theme of corruption. I really do feel that my make-up and hair designs are enhancing our performance and will be an important part in our play since the designs also symbolize certain things in our play. What I have come to notice is that there are some things that keep on popping up with every piece of research I obtained as well as my own designs which all have a 1950's feel to them. These things are symbolic to the 1950's and really represent the 1950's well:

• Big, volumnous hair with a big and sometimes tight waves
• Quite dark eyes but nothing too over the top (mostly) with one color lipstick
• For men, often sideburns and almost always hair slicked back with quite a lot of gel (often small poufs are created as well)

Some symbolic make-up and hair designs that do not only symbolize the 1950's but also symbolize corruption in our play are:

• loose hair for girls (shows that they are more bad than good, only characters with loose hair is corrupt)
• pinned up hair for girls (shows that they are more good than bad, when character has pinned up hair, she will not do anything corrupt)
• Dark lipstick to show that they are corrupt (the dark lipstick is symbolic because whoever is wearing dark lipstick (female) is corrupt or is soon becoming corrupt which is the major theme in our play and thus dark lipstick is symbolic for corruption.)