Tuesday 5th & Wednesday 6 April

Tuesday 5th 

So today in rehearsal we did run thought from page 19 to the end of the play. I was quite happy that were doing this because I wanted to know what lines I knew and what lines I didn't know. For example, I realised that I pretty know my lines just not my queues to say them. Therefore I feel like I am in a good place with the process of my character and the lines. To improve, I need to start actioning and doing more character work in spare time as I think this will help me to learn my lines quicker and to help me understand Marcus more. In addition to this, the run through made me realise that I need to start working harder my lines and character as I think this term I haven't been as on it as the previous terms.  Furthermore, I'm kind of like it when Ben just steps back and tells us to start the play as when I read the play I honestly didn't like or understand it but when we did it in lesson I really liked the play.

Before we start the rehearsals we do the warm up that we do before everyone where we roll down the spine and let our upper body freely move. I always like doing this as its more off an independent warm up where can I do one section of it for longer than others. For example on Monday I rolled down my spine three times as my shoulders felt really sift. When every has finished exploring our back, legs and arms we slowly star rise into the potion of the warrior pose so we can start side stretch. When I did side stretch on Monday I think it was the best I have ever done it so fare as I was alert and focus. My my side stretch were really sharp and controlled but the part of side stretch I have improved on is sticking my legs and arms into the air and slowly lowering them. At the beginning of Titus rehearsals I found it really different to lower my arms and legs at the same but I now find it easier and I just embrace the pain!  I find doing this exercises really helpful and easy to do now. It helps me to feel energised.

After the warm up we wet straight into the run through. I have already spoken about the warm up however the thing I have haven't mentioned is my technique in how I am saying the lines. As I sort of ignored the punctuation when I was learning lines I have start pausing and stopping in the places and while I was performing I start realising this.  Therefore I just need to start looking over my lines before and relearn the so I can say correctly. As well as , I need to start doing some vocal colour exercises especially for my monologue as when I am a acting my voice goes really high and doesn't sound or feel supported which means I could be harming it. I need to make sure this doesn't happen in the performance as the audience wont be able to understand me properly and I need to look after my voice and damaged it as we are performing the show four times.

As well as this , in today's lesson we did some work of our animal we have chosen that represents our character. Finding animals that matched Marcus was quite difficult for me  but I think that is because I am quite a picky person. To begin with, Ben told to sit comfortably with our eyes closed. Then Ben told us to slowly start to balance our weight to how the animal would do it and start to re posture our spine to match our animal. I found this part quite easy our however when Ben said to open I found it quite differcult to see the world in my Mountain dogs eyes. I think this could be because I didn't really do much research on how my animal sees the world. However, this is a starting point on how I need to improve on my character as I think I struggle with how Marcus see the world. To overcome this obstacle I could re read the play and start to write down  Marcus thoughts and feelings. As well as this I need to answer the questions from Stanislavsky technique of naturalism as I believe this will help with how Marcus psychologically thinks.

Wednesday 6th 

On Wednesday rehearsals I think I went quite well however we are starting to get behind on what we wanted to get done. The other two plays have nearly finished and we have only directed the first half . Even through we are behind I'm not really worried as I think with our play there is a lot more to think about as we are on stage all the time and directing a cast of all females must be really different. On Wednesday we got to see the set box for the first time. I personally love the set and I think TTA are doing a really good , as well as 'thinking about the budget' .

After the short TTA meeting we did we started properly going through page 19 - 22. Oblivious getting 4 pages done isn't good enough and we cant keep on getting 4 pages every two hours or wise we never finish the show to a high standard. If I'm honest Wednesday's rehearsals were boring I stood there for about 1 hour 30 mins being tree. I mean don't get me wrong I get it that I need to build stamina and stuff but it was really boring however I'm glad that I started standing for the degeneration of time being a tree as some people just gave up and sat down.  After this scene we did my monologue where I am talking about Lavinia tongue and arms being cut off. I think the monologue went really well considering it was the first time I properly went for it and the first Ben directed it. However I do need to ground my voice more as I felt at the end I started straining it.

Overall, I think this week rehearsals went okay however it is going slower than I expected it to be. We do really need to start picking the paste up or wise when it come to end it will be really rushed and in my opinion the ending is the most important as it when the majority of the character dies.