To be Continued.... (ish)

On Tuesday, we did more rehearsing. Friday, however, Mr. Fearnehough watch our piece and made a few criticisms. As I was expecting, many of them were about actions and finalizing our emotions. As we didn't specifically work on actions and it had been a long time since we discussed our character's objectives, our ideas had changed and we didn't communicate all of them to our partner. 

Wednesday was a lot of Drama though. We did went through our piece a few time during class and put together what would be our final set. We showed our excerpt to the other group with the sheet that we were given Tuesday, so that they could check if we had fixed issues. After school was where the real progress happened. We managed to get permission to stay after school till 3:00. We got started around one as we had to eat, put together the set, and change. We did our run through and R/M were going to do theirs when Mr. Fearnehough came in with a few exercises. The first one involved going through our lines with out moving and no cues from our partner. It was easy, but I found it much easier when I was moving(walking in place or swaying arms). I do wonder though, why we stood at an angle to each other rather than back to back. (For more than two person casts?) We did one other line exercise which was to go through the script backwards, now this was hard. Some parts were easy as I could think which one of my lines in the general area caused her to say her line, but others... It was easy to know what area of the script we were in and soon we would get into a flow but if it was broken it was a struggle to get back into a smooth process. At one bit we skipped a section and we became so lost that we had to restart a little back. Really good practice though.

 Then we were told to do an acting exercise. We were supposed to take our character's super objective and convert it into a whole body mask than extrapolate it. I'll be quite honest here, I strongly disliked it. Playing a character that already makes you uncomfortable in some bits(Stockings) and making him even more grotesque... Once I was acting it was much easier(in a way) as I had to really focus to make my hips really move. I think that I just couldn't focus on how I felt just the lines and actions. It was much more interment though and I wish that we could have had some time to use this exercise to improve the piece. I do like the idea for the exercise but if I was Torvold instead of Rank...  Richard's involved getting high off of money, rubbing it on himself, and counting it. (not humping) I did notice though that when they got off script there was only a small pause of confusion before they continued improving(it got really far off the script), I think if they were doing it normally they would have stopped and attempted to correct themselves.


On Friday we presented our excerpts to the Spanish and Lit classes. It was really stressful at the start as we were getting into costume and preparing the set as people were coming in. Once we started to preform though, the time just vanished. All of a sudden it was over. I think that their are three main things though, that I would have liked to do differently. First, during the stockings bit we were seated so far apart. This added to the pressure of not being able to make a mistake and already being uncomfortable caused me to worry but we made it through alright. Secondly, I wanted a day or two to work in what we had done on Wednesday afternoon into the excerpt. We came up with new ideas discussed how we could use them but weren't able to put them into practice. Third, was my shoes. I only have one pair of shoes and they're white sneakers. Yah, not going to match a black suit. Apparently though, we were asked if we could do it again for another group on Tuesday, so it had to be alright. It is going to be weird though starting normal class work again.