Working on the Prologue

I missed this part of the lesson becauseI  was in a peri, but looking at the prologue I would have staged the two characters (the customer and taxi driver) sitting opposite each other on the floor to make the audience feel as if they were veiwing a brief reprieve from the taxi drivers usually hectic life. I would have made the other character start out distant, as you usually would in a taxi, but gradually become more comfortable. Making the characters who first seem so different eventually slip into casual coversation would set the feeling of the east end being a place where no one is what you think them to be, which is later explored in all the tales.

I would have taken pauses between lines like 'knoworramean?' for the other character to tell the taxi driver about their life, firstly talking about fairly generic topics like how early it is, but later more personal ones like family and children. 

I think its important to analyse the prologue because this would be the first scene the audience sees, and though the content dosent give them a clue as to whats happening in the rest of the play, it does transport them to the east end and sets them up to view the rest of the tales in the context of their surroundings.