28th April Lesson Evaluation

1 ) What important discoveries were made during the rehearsal?

Within today's rehearsal, our aims were to begin rehearsing Jessie's scene and re-rehearse Amy's scene (linking the two together).  I loved Jessie's ideas for the suicide scene! She took the hand replace technique (from frantic assembly) and used this to show the relationship between Claudio and hero- falling apart and difficult. Alongside a soundtrack, this helped both me and George to portray the emotions and struggle each character was having. Furthermore, we also experimented with pace, gradually getting faster each time- this helped to build to the climax point of the suicide.
Alongside the movement, Jess found a poem about suicide/death which she wanted hero to say whilst walking down the steps. Throughout the whole play Hero is a silent character therefore I suggested that instead all other characters (Hero's) could whisper the poem whilst off stage and unseen- this would create the illusion of Hero's thoughts- as though the audience can hear the out loud.

2 ) What led to those discoveries?

Although Jessie was the main director of this scene, the rest of the group helped to direct and input any suggestions or feedback to help us improve. Initially Jessie presented us with her idea, and then let us interpret her ideas ourselves. Whilst using improv and experimenting with these ideas, the rest of the group gave us feedback- positive and negative which helped us improve each time!

3 ) Towards where do those discoveries lead?

Once we had finished learning the suicide scene, we put it into context (using he foyer stairs - as we will be during the final performance). Here we were able to visualise the practicalities of performing in this setting or making any necessary changes, there were also moments when we had to problem solve e.g. How we would use both set of stairs or where I would face ( as the front of the train station).

4 ) Consider questions No. 1-3 except focus on important roadblocks/dead ends.

I think the roadblocks at the moment will be worrying about time and finding time to commit to after college rehearsals- especially as we're getting close to the deadline, we should start putting more hours into our work if we are to produce a good performance.


7 ) Reflect on the journey of one or both of the actors with whom you are working.  How’s it going?  What needs to happen next?

I loved all of Jessie's ideas for the opening- she used both me and George's performance skills/ abilities in a way that would best compliment the storyline and characters and offered ideas from a different perspective that I hadn't considered.

Furthermore, as a group we were all productive and collaborative- staying focused and on task. This level of focus has been within most rehearsals and therefore is enabling us to produce lots of work, think creatively, and hopeful moves us towards finishing by the deadline!