Introducing Gulp

It's now time to hand over the writing of the BLOG to the LAB participants - or rather members of the Gulp Company (the Gulpers???) They will guide you through the rehearsals in their own words, but before they do - here is the marketing tag line for the play that Tanya has written:

GULP presents

Or Nearest Offer...

Everything must go: beds, mobiles, dreams, babies. Going, Going, Gone...?
What happens when you're all sold out?

And now it's over to Layla for the first rehearsal diary:

The first lab session back after a long, restful break was a laid back start to what will be a hard working next few months. The main focus of this session was to come up with a new name for our company, one that is catchy, unique and means something about us. We were split into small groups to brainstorm as many ideas as we could. We were then asked to choose five favourites per group that would be with everyone in hope that we would find the perfect name for us!

After some discussion and a vote we managed to narrow it down to 2: “Beyond Upper Street” and “Gulp.” It was quite a hard decision because a lot of the names were very creative but perhaps a little too much. I think “Gulp” will win. I prefer it because of its short catchiness.
We were then asked to write a 20 word description of our play to give us an idea of what might be written for the real thing.

This session was fun. Although I’m not into discussions and like to work and brainstorm by myself I still got a lot out of it.