Work experience student Lucy Long shares some thoughts.

Hi my name's Lucy and I'm at Half Moon on work experience. Every time I watched a play at Half Moon I wished I could watch one in the making and luckily this week I got to sit in and observe Begin/End in rehearsals. I enjoyed it so much; it is such a powerful play and some of the lines made me shiver. The actors are so good at getting in to character even when things get really tough. I also did not have an idea how much time and effort goes in to the simple things like the lights and how much effect they have on the play. I really can't wait to see when it's finished.

Work experience student Eva shares her thoughts from the rehearsal room

I'm Eva and I'm here at Half Moon on work experience, I have been sitting in on quite a lot of the rehearsals for Begin/End.

For as long as I can remember I have been coming to Half Moon and always enjoy seeing the plays but I never realised just how much work goes into them. I was lucky enough to sit in on the read through and see everyone's ideas for the making of the play.

The actors have to really get to know their characters family's and home lives etc. They also had to talk about what the play was really about and they did this in an exercise in which everyone had to write down as many words as they could that they thought were related to the play. These words were then spread across the floor and then put into an order of what words were important, the most important being love. I never realised that so much thought went into the planning of the play and I am really enjoying watching the play changing and improving, though it will be really weird to watch when it is finally finished.