Today, we only had 2 hours for a lesson at the end of the school day. Due to it being the year 13's last day, Ben wasn't in for the first hour as he was saying bye to them therefore leaving us alone to rehearse.
The rehearsal began awfully as the boys from the rehearsal next door kept coming in and interrupting the rehearsal. This began to annoy me as I didn't come in to school to do no work! After about 15 minutes, we all figured out that we could lock one of our doors therefore we locked it to prevent entry for them. I already knew that boys were distracting and girls are the ones who do most of the work but this really proved it to me as we were all fine and focused after they stopped coming in!
After running and refining a few of the scenes Ben wanted us to, we began with a run through. Since it was the end of the day and we didn't have Ben watching and directing us, we were all showing how tired we were. It went well but it didn't go amazingly as we weren't all showing our potential. This was until Ben entered when we were all on the floor doing the tree movements and he pushed us to work through it.
When it came to the Nurse's scene, Ben came up behind me and was repeating 'Disgusting' 'Give him the baby'. As much as I know why he was doing it for, he was so distracting!!! I kept dropping my lines and forgetting them because I had a voice telling me other stuff! He later explained that it was for me to then push for my objectives in this and to push me as an actor. He said that we think a lot behind the lines we say so he was putting in thoughts and vocalising them to give us more of the character's background.
At the end of the rehearsal, Ben gave us some feedback on what he saw. He said that when he entered, he was happy that we were actually doing a run through but he could see that we were all dead behind the eyes. He cut the lines between a line Shanay says to Jamilah entering as he said it was weird to talk about the messenger coming and then the messengers entrance. Another thing that he cut was the clappy bit in the second Hacca as he said it breaks the rhythm. Be bold and be brave.
To finish off the lesson, he reminded us that the next time we do it will be in the tech so it's going to be like the real thing so everything it will be will happen.
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