Tuesday 12 April 2015
Today in Shakespeare rehearsals I think we got quite a bit done however I think we are still quite behind with the process in of where we want our show to be. We started from page 25 which is when Katie and Esther swap as Titus. They swap when Katie dips her hand in the coldrin to show she has cut her hand off and spats the blood pack on Esther's stump ( which is her hand that pretends it is cut off. In this part I have a small monologue that I don't confidently know as its my last section of lines and therefore I have looked at it last. When I read the play for the first time in half term I didn't really understand what my character was talking however I know understand that it is about the two that the messenger brings on. In addition to this, from use blocking this section I have started to understand what my character would do and how he/she would react. For example , we are portraying Young Lucius as this vulnerable, young and scared child and as I am playing Marcus who is 'the mother' of the play I was caring for Young Lucius. The moments I need to work on is when Esther (Titus) throws a skull at me during her monologue. I need to work on this moment because I am aware that I am not acting truthful to the given circumstances and I think this moment is really important in the monologue as it is when Titus is staying to go a bit crazy. As well as, going through the play itself we started to work on the ensemble moments. I love all the ensemble moments in the play as I think they emphasis the themes of the scene. For example, while Esther is going her monologue the ensemble are pretending to have a fake hand and kind play around with it in a dark and weird way, but it looks really cool. We directed the switch between Nicole and I as we are sharing the role of Marcus. So the way we swap the role is by when I exit after Titus monologue. As the ensemble our round the edge the of the stage when all of the cast walk slowly around the sage to change potion I enter and swap position with Nicole. While this happening Samara who is playing Young Lucius is playing a sort of it game with Aaron while every moves. I like this because it shows Young Lucius is just a small kid and I like the idea of only him seeing the bad in Aaron.
As I am now the part of the ensemble I need to start remembering and going over the parts we have already directed as I am starting to find it hard to remember for example the Haka. In Act 3 scene 2 the ensemble are sitting down in quite a heavy way. I found this quite easy to do as from the warm up of exploring our spine I used my spine to reposition my posture which made me feel heavier. We do this until when Lavinia writes on the floor who cut off her tongue and arms. As this apart is a cruallsuall part in the play I can see why Ben wanted us to all look in to see who did this to Lavinia . I do like this part as it emphasis the idea of who Titus is dying to know who did this to his daughter. When Young Lucius says the line " Stuprum, Chiron and Demetrius" the ensemble slowly flow back into sitting. I do like this idea however I just feel it the ensemble could do something else like stay by playing the objective to find (while sitting down) so it looks like that they are trying to find them.
The next ensemble section is when Aaron says the line " did you not use his daughter very friendly? " This is my favourite part of the scene because its just so fun to do. All the females in the ensemble turn out and open our legs we giving birth to the audience. Also, we do the breathe action as well. I like this this idea because it emphasise the line and in the line we are constantly looking inwards so to do something where we turn outwards looks quite nice. We do this until the line " For our beloved mother in her pains" where we all scream like we in labour. Then Becky gets the black cloth and runs round the stage with it and then wraps it round to form a baby. When Becky has done this she then bangs the drum and we all fall to the floor. As don't actually have the black cloth on rehearsal I cant exactly say what I think of the idea however I do like the transition of the black cloth turning into the baby. I think it will look fine but it needs to be neat and dynamic and the well Becky walks will massively effect the piece. We leant the power of the walk in week 1 of rehearsal and I found it really helpful as it started to make look at the detail in my acting.
I think the section in rehearsal looks really good however we still need to pick up the past a bit. In addition to this, in my opinion , the reason why rehearsals are going quite slow past because not everyone in the cast is treating these rehearsals seriously and they are doing it half heartedly which at times can be annoying. For the quality of the show to improve everyone needs to start committing to their character a lot more. I don't just mean the large characters where they have lines but also the ensemble parts that creates the atmosphere on stage. I understand that sometimes it can be difficult to give 100% in a four rehearsal and sometimes I just give up and sit down and down give however I think we all need to build our stamina a lot more as we are all in the show and hardly anyone leaves the stage.
After the break Ben wanted to incorporate the sword fighting section. I loved sword as I use to fence foil as kid, so I thought it was really easy. But I thought wrong. I was properly the worst in the class as I had to my right hand when I am left hander. I did find it really funny but difficult to control the bamboo stick. I love the idea of using the bamboo sticks however the question whether we will be able to pull off making the sword look easy and dynamic.
Wednesday 13 April 2015
Today in rehearsals we practice the Haka dance as we haven't done that in a while. It was helpful to go over the Haka as this could be a strong opening that needs to be perfect. I think the extra on the Haka benefited us some people forgot certain parts and it was a good opportunity for us to ask each other questions. We spent about 30 minutes on the Haka and when we did a whole run though it was almost perfect. For the Haka to improve we need to go over re watch the videos and character building on a warrior character as we concentrating so much the what to do when by the time we get to the dress run it should be perfect.
After the Haka run we start to block the second Haka which will be when we are all Goths in of Act 3 scene 4. The way the second starts is Jamilah is on stage run to the right hand hand side and gets confronted with the Goths. After this, she runs to the left and gets confronted again. Then the ensemble do the synchronised movement that is very similar to the first Haka. When we lower on our knees I use the warm up do at the beginning to help with balancing and flow of my movement. I also find the Laban movement of Slash to get my movement of a warrior. Then ensemble form a semi circle so Jamilah cant escape. Then Jamilah runs to climb the ladder and says her monologue. While Jamilah is saying her lines we need to be reacting to what she is saying as Jamilah is explaining to the audience what is going. We need to be reacting constantly to what is especially as we don't have anything else to do until Lucius says " A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree" and we go and grab Aaron and hung him. I like the how Ben directed this bit as we are hanging Aaron like he's being crucified however I am just concerned that the transition of this will look messy because we aren't fully confident with our characters and what we are doing yet. When we Shanay who is playing Aaron. We go back to our original position to the floor. After this, I'm not sure if we exit off if we stay as Ben never said to exit off however I thin the Goths should exit because the next scene gets quite tense with Aaron and Lucius and I just feel that the stage should be bare so there are distraction , in my opinion. We only got up to page 40 so we have made some progress as we only have nine more pages until we finish blocking everything and then we can start doing run through and focusing on the dances such as the Lone dance and the Haka.
What I need to do for next week is start actioning my text as I am not responding and reacting to what is happening around me .
As I am now the part of the ensemble I need to start remembering and going over the parts we have already directed as I am starting to find it hard to remember for example the Haka. In Act 3 scene 2 the ensemble are sitting down in quite a heavy way. I found this quite easy to do as from the warm up of exploring our spine I used my spine to reposition my posture which made me feel heavier. We do this until when Lavinia writes on the floor who cut off her tongue and arms. As this apart is a cruallsuall part in the play I can see why Ben wanted us to all look in to see who did this to Lavinia . I do like this part as it emphasis the idea of who Titus is dying to know who did this to his daughter. When Young Lucius says the line " Stuprum, Chiron and Demetrius" the ensemble slowly flow back into sitting. I do like this idea however I just feel it the ensemble could do something else like stay by playing the objective to find (while sitting down) so it looks like that they are trying to find them.
The next ensemble section is when Aaron says the line " did you not use his daughter very friendly? " This is my favourite part of the scene because its just so fun to do. All the females in the ensemble turn out and open our legs we giving birth to the audience. Also, we do the breathe action as well. I like this this idea because it emphasise the line and in the line we are constantly looking inwards so to do something where we turn outwards looks quite nice. We do this until the line " For our beloved mother in her pains" where we all scream like we in labour. Then Becky gets the black cloth and runs round the stage with it and then wraps it round to form a baby. When Becky has done this she then bangs the drum and we all fall to the floor. As don't actually have the black cloth on rehearsal I cant exactly say what I think of the idea however I do like the transition of the black cloth turning into the baby. I think it will look fine but it needs to be neat and dynamic and the well Becky walks will massively effect the piece. We leant the power of the walk in week 1 of rehearsal and I found it really helpful as it started to make look at the detail in my acting.
I think the section in rehearsal looks really good however we still need to pick up the past a bit. In addition to this, in my opinion , the reason why rehearsals are going quite slow past because not everyone in the cast is treating these rehearsals seriously and they are doing it half heartedly which at times can be annoying. For the quality of the show to improve everyone needs to start committing to their character a lot more. I don't just mean the large characters where they have lines but also the ensemble parts that creates the atmosphere on stage. I understand that sometimes it can be difficult to give 100% in a four rehearsal and sometimes I just give up and sit down and down give however I think we all need to build our stamina a lot more as we are all in the show and hardly anyone leaves the stage.
After the break Ben wanted to incorporate the sword fighting section. I loved sword as I use to fence foil as kid, so I thought it was really easy. But I thought wrong. I was properly the worst in the class as I had to my right hand when I am left hander. I did find it really funny but difficult to control the bamboo stick. I love the idea of using the bamboo sticks however the question whether we will be able to pull off making the sword look easy and dynamic.
Wednesday 13 April 2015
Today in rehearsals we practice the Haka dance as we haven't done that in a while. It was helpful to go over the Haka as this could be a strong opening that needs to be perfect. I think the extra on the Haka benefited us some people forgot certain parts and it was a good opportunity for us to ask each other questions. We spent about 30 minutes on the Haka and when we did a whole run though it was almost perfect. For the Haka to improve we need to go over re watch the videos and character building on a warrior character as we concentrating so much the what to do when by the time we get to the dress run it should be perfect.
After the Haka run we start to block the second Haka which will be when we are all Goths in of Act 3 scene 4. The way the second starts is Jamilah is on stage run to the right hand hand side and gets confronted with the Goths. After this, she runs to the left and gets confronted again. Then the ensemble do the synchronised movement that is very similar to the first Haka. When we lower on our knees I use the warm up do at the beginning to help with balancing and flow of my movement. I also find the Laban movement of Slash to get my movement of a warrior. Then ensemble form a semi circle so Jamilah cant escape. Then Jamilah runs to climb the ladder and says her monologue. While Jamilah is saying her lines we need to be reacting to what she is saying as Jamilah is explaining to the audience what is going. We need to be reacting constantly to what is especially as we don't have anything else to do until Lucius says " A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree" and we go and grab Aaron and hung him. I like the how Ben directed this bit as we are hanging Aaron like he's being crucified however I am just concerned that the transition of this will look messy because we aren't fully confident with our characters and what we are doing yet. When we Shanay who is playing Aaron. We go back to our original position to the floor. After this, I'm not sure if we exit off if we stay as Ben never said to exit off however I thin the Goths should exit because the next scene gets quite tense with Aaron and Lucius and I just feel that the stage should be bare so there are distraction , in my opinion. We only got up to page 40 so we have made some progress as we only have nine more pages until we finish blocking everything and then we can start doing run through and focusing on the dances such as the Lone dance and the Haka.
What I need to do for next week is start actioning my text as I am not responding and reacting to what is happening around me .
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