wednesday 4th may notes

Today in rehearsal we started with our usual warm up. Once we had done this and gotten into the space we had a discussion with ben  about the running time of the play, the play is still running at just under 2 hours  and we need to get it down to more like 1 hour 15 mins max, this is mainly to do with transitions being weak at the moment i think.

We did an exercise where we ran the play very sped up, this made me realise how well we all know the play and although we were only given 10 mins to run the whole play we didn’t do this it ran at more like 20 however there is no way we could have ran it any faster. We also added an element of comedy to this run which was interesting as our version is the complete opposite of comedy.

We were rehearsing in one of the smaller rooms so we decided as a group to go outside and run the play. This was interesting as it allowed us to explore using our voices outside and projecting, it also gave us a feel of what our Brighton performance is going to be like. There was a lot more distractions rehearsing outside like people watching us and the sound of the primary school next door however i felt that we combated this well and worked hard even though we had these distractions.

The run we did was quicker outside at around 1.30 which is a lot better but there is still space to improve, the show is in a good place and i feel like we are almost ready to perform now and people are really starting to find their characters , for me I’ve gotten to the point where I feel like I know my character very well.