Wednesday 4th May

In todays session we did the normal side stretch warm up and the exploration of the back, legs and arms. From doing the exercise for exploring different ways my body has helped me find new ways of coming up to standing. I think this is helpful for an actor as I am moving body and allowing myself to be as free as possible.

After this, Ben spoke to us about how the show is over 1hour 30mins and how we need to really speed up the transitions. So Ben made us do this exercise where we had do a funny version of the play in under 10 minutes. At first I didn't really know how we would make the play Titus Andronicus a comedy as there is so much death to it however in the end we did.  The funny version of the play was about 17 minutes. As this was nearly double over the time we wanted it to be I was concerned as the run yesterday was 2 hours.

After this, Ben decided to give us a break as we worked so hard. When we came back ask Ben if we could do a run through of the show outside. The reasons for this was we will be performing outside on Friday 20th May and performing outside is completely different to performing inside in my opinion. Performing outside was so nice because it was such a nice day and I feel like everybody worked a lot harder than as there was primary school next door and lots of things that could of distracted the audience. It is so important to work harder when performing outside as the audience are much more likely going to zone out due to the distractions. I personally loved performing outside as normally theatres are really hot and stuffy but as we were in the shade it was really cool and refreshing.  In addition to this, I think this rehearsal was when people started to find there characters more for example Hannah. I think what Hannah did really was she had strong charastics that were bold and big which suited her character Saturinus.  In addition to this,  this rehearsal made everything speed up abit more as the run came to 1 hour and 27 minutes which is really good. I think the show will be 1hour 20minutes as there are some points in the play that do need to speed like especally the transitions from scene to scene.  The example of this is the second Haka. I personally think the introduction dropped energy. However , having said this we did pick up the transition when we all got into formation.  In my opinion, the opening of this scene needs to happen quicker as I just think its a sloppy because it is slow.

Overall , the show is in a really good place and I was really proud of everyone as we have all worked really hard to make the show really good.