Single Drama (3rd/4th November)

Overview of the week
This week we blocked through Act 1 on Monday and Act 2 on Tuesday. It made us help us see what the play was actually like when it was all together. It helped us with how each of the scenes ran into each other. It also was nice to know how much of my lines that I know off by heart and the ones that I still need to work on. The play is now really starting to come together but it would be easier when everybody knows their lines as then the play would run much smoother. Also, the movemet would be easier to see without people with scripts in their hand.

Lines

I know most of my lines. I know the lines for my character if Number 40 off by heart. I roughly know the lines for Man on Street and Drunk One but there's a few lines that I miss out sometimes or get the wrong way round. This week I'm going to go over my lines and make sure that I know them off by heart.

Characterization
We did characterization where we thought about how how character would walk. This helped me differentiate between my characters to make sure the audience could tell that I'm a different character as in our production, we all stay on stage meaning there's on basic change of costumes instead of a full change making it harder for the audience to tell if you're meant to be the same character or not. My characters are all completely different meaning that all thir personalities have to different to make sure that the audience understands this.

I also looked to see how my character would look on-stage. I found one picture to represent each character that I play to show what I think that they look like. This helps me think to see how I play the character as now I have thought how they have looked.

I feel like that as each rehearsal has gone on, the show has improved more. It now helps that less people are using their script a r held us move around more. I think that everybody forgot about how they walked in the next rehearsal though so I think that we all should definitely consider and remember that to make sure that the audience is clear on the character that they are playing.

I think that we still need to work on the whole lift scene when Christopher is in London Station. I don't think that the voices are quick enough at the moment and there's too many gaps at the moment. I also think that all the lifts need to be a lot smoother and that they should run into each other much more easily. This would then make the effect that Christopher is confused and that the audience is experiencing what he is experiencing.