Run of show

Today we had a run through of the show, i was quite worried about doing this as we haven’t ran the entire play being blocked so i was worried we would forget things however i think it is important to do a run at this stage in the process so we understand where we are in the process. Before we did the run we did our usual warm up and then went straight into the run.

These are the notes i took during the lesson:

The Hakka dance isn’t as strong as it could be, people are looking around alot and are not a hundred percent sure on the actual moves, and this breaks the atmosphere and means we aren’t as invested in the movement.

Most people are still on script for most of the play, me being one of these people. I need to start learning my lines properly so i can focus on working on character and what i am doing on stage.

There are moments during the play where people are not quite sure of what to do and look around to other people for support, the problem usually gets fixed however we need to start making sure we know where we are when, there are moments during the play where i am not sure where i need to be so need to ask Ben where i should be during these scenes of make a conscious decision and then stick to that.

The transition in the love dance are weak and people aren’t slowing down on the beat, we are also only meant to fall quickly if Aaron passes you which no one seems to be doing at the moment.

The first half of the show is stronger than the second half at them moment but that because we’ve only been focusing on detail in the first half so far, well move onto detail in the second half soon.

Ensemble work needs to be stronger because at the moment we are all a bit lost, the play si very much based on ensemble work so this is a very important note to work on.