Imagination Exercise
To start off our rehearsal, Ben got us to get into partners. I chose to be partners with Gemma. He asked us to decide who was the strongest in the pair (obviously, not me) and then to stand in the space with our eyes shut, in neutral. I really enjoy imagination exercises when they work.
We were told that it was a hot, summer's day. Although I was only picturing the sun, I felt as if I could feel the heat on my skin as I found myself getting hotter and hotter. To continue, we were told that there was a fly the kept passing our faces and occasionally landing on it. When this happens in summer, I get really annoyed so the thought of it began to annoy me. More and more flies kept getting added to our exercise until they were covering our bodies, going in our pants and our mouths - This made me feel quite sick so I began to cough and wheeze as the flies could suffocate me. I was fighting my surroundings, trying to attempt for them to stop coming near me. I was getting in a real panic as my body began to itch with the thought of flies and, in that time, I really believed I had multiple flies on me.
Ben then told us to open our eyes however my body continued to itch for a while. He then told us to do it again, preferably with our eyes open, but this time the stronger partner would try and stop the weaker struggling. From watching other pairs, it looked really effective especially when Ben then told the holder to begin to weep and cry out 'O' as the weaker partner was dying (he said to picture the person you love most in the world dying in your arms). Just the thought of this made me sad as it made me think of what I would do in this situation.
The next time we did it, we took out the sound and Ben told us this was how we were going to end the play (although, later on, we added on a few bits to the ending).
The Rest of the Ending
Finishing the directing of the ending, Ben decided that everybody on the floor (the dead people) all rise up and stand in two lines on either side. When Lucius and Young Lucius walk offstage, we all turn around and walk off one by one, leaving Aaron alone on stage shouting. I really like this ending as Tamora takes Aaron's baby away from him and we all leave him also therefore leaving the message that he is alone forever. I really think that this will look very effective onstage.
When running it, it all went well however, when we walk off one by one, we all were waiting for someone to go first (on my side) however no one did so, at the same time, we all had the same thought and took a step. To improve this and make sure it won't happen again, we have now decided on an order so that it will not look so messy again.
Running First Half of Play
After figuring out an ending to the play, Ben decided to get us to run the play but without sound and only doing the everybody's entrances and exits. Surprisingly, I knew more than I thought I did! Along with the rest of the cast, we all did it without sound very successfully.
Moving on, we aimed to do a full run through of the play. This was a bit optimistic as we only got through half of the play therefore we aim to finish the rest tomorrow.
The first section until the removal of my dead body went along really well. Everyone supported one another and we all seemed to know our lines although I keep getting stuck on the last line of my first spoken section. After this, everyone started to lose focus and get more distracted therefore making it harder to run. A part which personally I find to be very demanding is the formation of the tree. Although making the tree is not that hard, it's very hard to hold our positions and still look engaged while our knees and arms are aching. We have to maintain this pose for a few scenes, making it harder to hold it. Although the tree may look effective, I can not see the actors looking very engaged in holding this position therefore, if I was the director, I would make a change to this and, either, scrap the tree idea or make positions easier for people to hold like if we push our weight into one another and support each other while making ourselves look like interlocking branches.
Finishing the directing of the ending, Ben decided that everybody on the floor (the dead people) all rise up and stand in two lines on either side. When Lucius and Young Lucius walk offstage, we all turn around and walk off one by one, leaving Aaron alone on stage shouting. I really like this ending as Tamora takes Aaron's baby away from him and we all leave him also therefore leaving the message that he is alone forever. I really think that this will look very effective onstage.
When running it, it all went well however, when we walk off one by one, we all were waiting for someone to go first (on my side) however no one did so, at the same time, we all had the same thought and took a step. To improve this and make sure it won't happen again, we have now decided on an order so that it will not look so messy again.
Running First Half of Play
After figuring out an ending to the play, Ben decided to get us to run the play but without sound and only doing the everybody's entrances and exits. Surprisingly, I knew more than I thought I did! Along with the rest of the cast, we all did it without sound very successfully.
Moving on, we aimed to do a full run through of the play. This was a bit optimistic as we only got through half of the play therefore we aim to finish the rest tomorrow.
The first section until the removal of my dead body went along really well. Everyone supported one another and we all seemed to know our lines although I keep getting stuck on the last line of my first spoken section. After this, everyone started to lose focus and get more distracted therefore making it harder to run. A part which personally I find to be very demanding is the formation of the tree. Although making the tree is not that hard, it's very hard to hold our positions and still look engaged while our knees and arms are aching. We have to maintain this pose for a few scenes, making it harder to hold it. Although the tree may look effective, I can not see the actors looking very engaged in holding this position therefore, if I was the director, I would make a change to this and, either, scrap the tree idea or make positions easier for people to hold like if we push our weight into one another and support each other while making ourselves look like interlocking branches.
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