Well, rehearsals are going extremely well I am happy to say. The exercises in the first week were incredibly beneficial, enabling all of the group to feel comfortable with one another and enjoy themselves. The main exercises such as hot seating and improvisation, allowed us an insight into our characters and relationships to create a base and develop through rehearsals. I feel this work has certainly paid off, as the relationships between all the characters are evident and continue to develop whilst rehearsing.
The rehearsals are very well organised, resulting in the objects and more being completed and satisfactory. With the organisation and commitment, the one act has been blocked incredibly quickly in fine detail. Everyone is off script and remembering the blocking, resulting in run throughs progressing rapidly. The cast receive feedback from the director and producer after every run through, so we know what particular areas are good, need improvement and other elements that are felt as essential. Using the detailed feedback, the cast are fully aware of their requirements, which is allowing us to take on the next task of detailed characterisation.
Personally I feel this is the most demanding aspect we have to face in this process, in order to ensure our characters are believable. This includes every aspect in order to transform ourselves physically, vocally and mentally to make the play truthful. The next few rehearsals will be incorporating exercises that will help our own development for the characters. It is also one aspect I will be working on in my spare time, as my accent and physicality need a vast amount of improvement.
Andy
Thank You Andy, you really don't have anything to worry about concerning your characterisation and all that needs work from my point of view with you is just keeping the volume up, making sure you don't rush through any of your lengthier lines and just continuing work on your accent if your'e still not feeling 100% about it (but it is very good honestly) and just working on your diction, which will all be perfect by the end of the week, i'm sure. I have full confidence in your performance and although we have discussed how you and the George character have some very similar personality traits, when I am watching you rehearse, it doesn't feel as though I am watching you, Swifty, but your character.
ReplyDeleteWe will work more on your characterisation tomorrow and I'm, sure we'll be able to work through any problems you are having. I personally think that you are pretty much there with the character of George and so at the moment we are ahead of the game with your character work so there really isn't anything to worry about, i'm sure the rest of the group will agree with me that the George character is coming along really nicely!! :)
xx abbie xx