Today's lesson was split up into two sections as we no longer have directing at the end of the day on a Wednesday so we rehearsed in that time instead.
Morning Rehearsal
After warming up with the Side Stretch, Ben told us to walk around the space and, at the same time, travel the route of our character's and say our lines to ourselves. I found this to be really useful as it forced me to say my lines without a script in my hand therefore making me more confident in what I was saying. There were lines that Nurse speaks that I kept repeating to get the tone right and perfect the way I spoke them.
After this, we then got straight into blocking the last few bits of the play. Once this was done, we then attempted to do a full run through of the play. Since it had taken us so long to finish blocking the play, I thought the play was going to be very long however it went by so quickly (although we only got about half way through since Ben was directing while we were going through it). I found myself to be more familiar with Mutius's lines and more confident when delivering them. Something that we all forgot was when Sybil and Lauren are trying to run away together, we, the Goths, do a lap around the room following them, acting as if Titus was chasing us. In the rehearsal of this, Lauren injured herself as she fell over so we had another actor come in to fill her place.
The rehearsal seemed to be going quite smoothly, which, strangely, made me start to like the play. Seeing it being put all together with a lot of energy in the room made the play seem more exciting. We did not finish the full run through, as we only got about 25 pages in, so we planned to finish the rest of the play in the afternoon rehearsal.
Afternoon Rehearsal
As the final directing assessments were taking place, Ben was not in the first part of this rehearsal however he left Katie to be in charge. At the start, everyone seemed to not really want to do the rehearsal in a time not specifically made for Shakespeare however this turned around when Katie really took charge of everyone and got everybody on task.
The rehearsal without Ben went better than I thought as we were all problem solving and helping each other out without Ben telling us a straight answer, which made me feel a lot more involved in the process although when Ben came back into the room to help us, the environment immediately became 10x more professional as there was someone back with a position of authority.
When we got to Nurse's scene, Ben said I had to act more panicked, which I really struggled with so, to help, he made me repeat 'Oh Aaron' while running from one side of the room to another, making me more breathless and panicked. This really helped me finding a panicked tone so now I realise I need to work on it before the next rehearsal.
We got quite far into the play in this rehearsal so now I can imagine that we will finish a full run through next week!
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