rehearsal log 2

My group and I, recognised that when we rehearse our lines, they sound just as if we are reading them, almost as if we add no feeling to the lines.To overcome this issue, we decided to focus on the sript.

First we decided that the first step was dividing the script into sections  and giving the sections a title so we knew what the focus was for each section as in for example in one scene of the play the focus changes within the characters. what i found challenging about this was when the focus was on characters that were not present in the scene, for example the mum, she is nowhere to be seen yet she is mentioned in the play quite a lot as she is who caused the issue in the first place, I asked myself how to make the audience know that i am addressing her without making it obvious. In the script, Debbie Tuckergreen plays with revealing to the audience that they are talking about the mum and instead she uses lines such as "And you from her so what!".

Also when analysing the script we were focusing in the primary and secondary focus. The primary focus was all about knowing the intentions of the character when rehearsing the lines. This was quite challenging because, even though I know what is happening in the scene, Debbie Tuckergreen often reveals the secrets on her plays smartly by not making obvious the secret but just making putting the emotion out there so the audience can figure out what is going on.


We also looked at the purpose of the of the lines, in other words what is the character trying to get out of those lines. I found this challenging as i mentioned before TuckerGreen doesn't spell out exactly what is going on so in order to interpret the character the best way possible me as the actress had to come with my own purpose of the lines with the context of the play.

• what we did 
• what went well
• was there anything challenging?
• what did i learn
• what targets we set
• rehearsal footage/photos (annotate them)
• upload the annotated script
• primary and secondary focus of the scene
• summary of the play and when it was performed

rehearsal blog 1

                

  In today's lesson, my group and I rehearsed, went over the lines of the play we will perform in front of an audience called  Born Bad, as well as improving the staging which was new to us with this play, I have already learned  parts of my script and I am finding challenging to sound naturalistic, because  I am trying to remember the script while saying the lines, I have recognised this challenge and to not make it an obstacle on my performance I am practising my lines twice a day instead of once so then when I'm  rehearsing or performing I don't have to think so much about the next line and stop which most of the times leads to unfocus.

However, there were a many things that went well. First of all, we are learning section by section of the script, the first section is our first scene. in the first scene, Dawta, the oldest daughter, is asking her sister (me) Sister 1, what she knows about when they were younger as her dad abused her and nobody spoke up, it isn't clear if sister 1 remembers what happened at this point but I believe she feels a sense of guilt and that is why she takes so long to get to the pointand admit what she knows. As I understand her intentions and put myself in her shoes the scene sounds good when we are rehearsing it.
 Another thing that went well and  would say we improved is the pauses, in our script there are many dashes which mean we have to make small pauses when saying the sentence and we almost nailed compared to the last time we rehearsed our script. Meaning that, the more we read it the more naturalistic it becomes.