Tuesday 5th April notes

We started our rehearsal with our usual warm up, we came into the room put our stuff down and came into the space and began to warm up independently, rolling down the spine and stretching any tense parts of our bodies. This is a good way to start our rehearsals as it means I can independently stretch what I need to and warm up what I need to warm up before the group warm up of the side stretch. we found warrior pose and tucked in our hips more meaning we are more grounded, my side stretch has improved as I feel i know it better now and can focus on connecting my breath to the movement which allows a deeper stretch and warm up, it also connects my words and physicality which is helpful as our play is very much about the connection between words and movement.

After warming up we went straight into running and blocking. Today I focused on how I was pronouncing and articulating my lines, using the punctuation from the text and including these into the way I spoke, every piece of punctuation in Shakespeare’s work is important. i haven’t yet found a way of saying my lines i am happy with i feel as though my character should have a distinct way of saying the words they say so i am going to look at this and explore my vocal techniques. 

Next we looked at the animals we researched and did some animal building in the lesson. for my character this was especially useful to do as he is more animalistic than many of the other characters. i had already completed my research on hyenas so i had a knowledge of my animal. We started by sitting comfily in the space with our eyes closed. we then balanced our weight as to how our animal would balance theirs. for me this meant being on all fours and moving most of my weight on my front legs. i found it useful that we had our eyes shut during this exercise as it is a embarrassing exercise but very helpful. we then began to move our spines as our animal would and moving in the space, connecting to how our animals would breath and also connecting this, once we had physicalised our animals we then opened our eyes and looked at the world through the animals eyes, we interacted with each other, for me i kept cornering Sybil as she was clearly a weaker animal then me and I was a predator. Then we reacted to danger, it was interesting to play the different roles of being predator to then being pray and how the animal would react. my animal moves away from situations that cause danger so i am quite cowardly. This exercise helped me quite a lot and it made me really understand who i am in the world of Titus.