Midsummer Nights Dream - Developing scenes

In Act 1 Scene 2 we first meet the Mechanicals and we thought it would be a good idea to have the workmen enter the stage in a cool eccentric way as it will immediately show that they are the funny characters and it will catch the audience attention straight away. We originally thought that the mechanicals could walking in, following Quince and they would come to a sudden stop and the rest would fall into each other. I think this was a very effective entrance as it is very large and visual on the stage however on some of our rehearsals we would not fall into each other at the right moment and so it sometimes hurt us and it looked very messy.

We decided to experiment with this entrance as we wanted this to be a very iconic moment in the play so we then tried the idea that we would enter by doing some kind of a chant. We all stood in a line and entered by clapping and clicking at the same time as each other. we would then finish by standing in a pose with everyone out of breathe and proud of what they had done. It worked in the sense that it was visually captivating however we thought that is was missing something so we decided to add a song in which we could sing every time we entered onto the stage. We messed around some of the words relating to the play and we finally came up with...

"WE ARE MECHANICALS AND WE ARE PROUD, WE ARE CLUMSY AND VERY LOUD!"

This works very well as we could clap it along to a simple rhythm, it is very catchy and it states exactly what type of characters they are. But once again the way we were entering onto the stage was too tidy even though these characters are meant to be clumsy. So we experimented with more slapstick sketches that would look more appropriate for the play.

So our final entrance is Quince enters singing the chant and everyone else responds by chanting the same line back to her. then after Quince snout walks in and realises his shoe lace is undone so he bends down to tie his shoe. At this point Bottom then leap frogs over Snout and Bottom caries on walking to Quince. Then Flute jumps onto Snout's back and the sort of fumble around and Snout drops him onto the floor. And finally at the back Starveling drags on Snug who is trying to escape off stage.