Report: Thinkers' Club Session 12

Date: 26th October 2014

Session # 12

Attended by: 11 participants

Report written by: Fatima Salman

Time flies by, Session twelve is over too! A few members had been unable to attend the session due to a strike, but most of the members came.

In this session, we mainly practiced saying the dialogues for the play. I think that everyone was doing better than last time. Here is a bit about the characters of the play ‘Who will bell the cat?’

There are two main characters, a princess of the mice and budsoorat, a female slave. Then there’s a king of the mice and an old mouse, who invented the bell. There’s a cat, she’s one of the main characters too. Another important character is Aesop, he’ll come in the beginning and end, to tell about the play. There are some other characters too, like worker mice, but these are the main characters.

There is a prompter too, she won’t be performing, but she would be doing a lot of work offstage. The word prompter means, a person who is offstage and follows a play in progress with the book, repeating missed cues and supplying actors with forgotten lines. Our prompter will also help with dressing the characters in costumes, and calling the people to the stage when their turn comes to perform.

So that’s about it. We will Insha Allah be performing the play sometime in November. I hope it will continue to improve.

Thank you