Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Turn around Thursday


Thursday 11th October 2012

 By today we were definitely at stage 4 and 5 in the devising process, which are distillation and presentation; we focused on editing, reassessment and creating more tension to heighten the performance. We also did shake-ups (drama games at non prescribed time when people are getting groggy and restless to get focus back into the work) and make people feel more energised; I found that these shake-up pumped fun back into our group and made us enjoy the devising/rehearsal periods. And because these shakes ups are drama games they also had a practical purpose to hone particular skills or get people thinking more about their physicality and verbal abilities, which they would be marked on.

The most important thing we got done today was coming to an agreement how many scenes would be included in the play and what we would be showing those scenes and the impact that it would cause to the audience watching it.

The play is one act with three scenes, and two linking scenes in which the Narrator narrates about mundane periods in Alex’s life, I say mundane however they are an important dialogue between my character and the audience informing them about small changes that lead to a big incident with our protagonist.

When taking on this character, I didn’t quite realise the scale to which I would have to interact with the audience, to keep the audiences attention I think will be a difficult task, also because I will be travelling with a large amount of people, outside I will have to use my voice a lot, to project so audience members at back can hear me, I also have to use inflections to raise tension and drama. It’s a challenge I look forward to seeing if I can pull off on performance day.

During the day we rehearsed from the scenes that we had and what we would fit into them, however I thought it would best to have a concrete piece of script so that when we came back on Tuesday after the weekend we would all know where we were because as of the past two rehearsal days it’s all be improvised and picking up from where we left off sometimes magical lines got lost/forgotten.
Since I have experience writing plays I volunteered to write a full script for my group, each actor is to send me the gist of what their characters say and I shall take it from there. 

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