Tuesday
6th May
Today we were focusing on practicing through all of the
scenes for the performance next week.
Before half term we were given the full script for the
whole show and we then had to learn these lines over half term. I tried my best
to learn as many lines as I could over the break but I still had revision for
exams and also practicing dances for the dance performance which is this week.
However, I did manage to learn most of my monologue and phone call which were
the easier pieces to learn by myself.
The main thing that we needed to look at in this lesson
was the setting of the monologues. We had discussed many ideas for how we were
going to deliver our monologues but we never came to a conclusion. We had a
group discussion in the session today and we all decided that after we have
completed the scene before (our day part 2) which ends with all of the
characters in a line downstage, we will walk through the grid. When each character
delivers their monologue, they will enter the lift and all the other characters
on the grid stop moving. Once the character has delivered their monologue, they
will head back to their box which is located up stage and the rest of the
characters will carry on walking through the grid. Each character has their own
block which we will then be sticking pictures and items which represent the
character, on the wall behind it. For example, my character has a butterfly
obsession so on her wall she will have pictures of different butterflies.
Half way through the session we were joined by some
visitors. One of the visitors was Bernie who is one of the directors of UCAN
productions. He was visiting to see how we were progressing with the
performance in preparation for next week. Because this was the first session
back after half term, most of us didn’t know our lines because we had been
unable to practice much over the break. I find it difficult learning lines by
myself when I am part of a larger scene. I find practicing with the other people
in the scene a lot better because I can then learn what my cue line is.
We managed to find some masking tape which we used to
mark out the lift. This was very helpful as it gave us an idea of how much room
we are going to have when carrying out all of the scenes as they all involve
the lift. Next week we will have more tape so that we can mark out the grid.
Each different character will have a different coloured tape which will have a
different pathway, however they will all lead to the entrance of the lift.
Danielle will have a line of string under her tape as she was very little sight
and can use this to feel her pathway.
When running some of the scenes, Bernie gave me and the
others some feedback on how we could improve the scene. In my monologue, the
main priority is to learn it first and be secure with it because as soon as I am
confident with it, I will be able to start acting it and getting into my
character more. Also, in the doctor’s scene where I play the doctor and
Danielle who is playing Felicity plays the patient, Bernie told me to be really
sarcastic doctor as Felicity keeps coming to visit me. I am currently finding
this difficult but I will keep practicing it over the next week and hopefully I
should have improved by the next session.
My target for over the next week is to keep on practicing
and running through my lines. We have organised to have another rehearsal this
Saturday and our lecturer, Alys is also going to come in and help us rehearse.
Alys said to us that we must be off script by the Saturday rehearsal. I think
this is possible because once we have done the dance performance we can
concentrate on learning the lines for this performance next Thursday.
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