Within today’s rehearsal, our aims were to complete the final suicide scene and block through the transitions. This was Nicole’s scene and she chose to repeat the beginning scene – however swapping over the roles of Claudio and Hero (Hero is now the one pushing Claudio away). So that the audience are clear Hero is still inside Claudio’s head (she’s not physically there with him), Hero walks up the stairs, from the train tracks- as through she’s coming back from the dead- makes it clear she’s a ghost.
The movement we have kept simple, which show clearly the reverse of roles (the audience will remember the movement from the beginning, as it is basic + distinguishable). Our only difficulties were showing Claudio where the suicide note was. Suggestions for this included pointing, Hero giving the suicide note to Claudio, and Hero taking the bag from Claudio. However, after trying a number of different ideas, we agreed that a simple look towards Claudio and then the bag was enough to signal that he should read the note.
Whilst Claudio says this to Hero, I stand still facing front – with a smug expression. I suggested here that Hero could be repeating the motif however we agreed that by this point, Claudio (and Hero) have reached the final stage ‘acceptance’ (of the five stages of guilt) and therefore is no longer necessary to represent this journey.
Furthermore, we also ran through each of the transitions, ensuring that we each knew what we were doing.
• For the first transition, Beatrice and Benedict argue into the canteen whilst I guide the audience towards them – ready for lunch
• Second transition, Nicole leads the audience on a tour as Manager of the hotel. Becca the maid is present and we use the different spaces – doors of hub to create comedy
• Third transition- Nicole leads the audience again into the bingo hall
• Fourth transition- Me and Amy lead the audience in a salsa class – trying to involve them in dancing
• Fifth transition- all the Hero’s shout ‘I will never leave you’ to Claudio, and I leave roses on the stairs – which the Hero’s use to lead the audience back to the foyer.
2 ) What led to those discoveries?
From our previous rehearsal we were aware of everything we still needed to complete and planned what we would be doing today. This helped us to achieve everything quickly in the rehearsal – with no time was wasted
3 ) Towards where do those discoveries lead?
Now that the performance is completed, we can focus on the use of props/ costume and refining the acting/ movement. Now that we are confident, have learnt lines, and know the general structure (due to our map of costume, prop and scene outline) we can aim to improve the quality of our acting- I now need to specifically focus on my characterisation and accents!
4 ) Consider questions No. 1-3 except focus on important roadblocks/dead ends.
The dead ends at this point would be to get 'too comfortable' - confident that we have completed the performance and therefore not needing to rehearse or being very productive in lessons. As mentioned above, we still need to keep rehearsing in order to refine and perfect our acting/ movement. Furthermore, considering we only devised the final scene and transitions today, these will still need lots of practise and development!
6 ) Reflect on transformational leadership. How’s it going? What actions does this suggest?
I really liked Nicole's ideas for the final scene, she directed me and George well with help/ input from the rest of the group. Her ideas fitted in well with the rest of the play- clearly showed the change in attitude/ values - journey in which Claudio and hero take within the play, and acts as a good contrast/ twist.
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