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Week Five

Posted on March 9th, 2007 by tilly26.
Categories: Theatre Journals for 100.

What do you call a parrot wearing a raincoat? Polly Unsaturated!
Yep, they just keep getting better and better.

Directing
First of al I just want to say again how much I’m loving the actors doing all of the noises from on stage, I find it really effective. Well I have officially reached the end of my blocking. I’m usually about 2 or 3 scenes ahead in my blocking, but on Friday while Mr Cooper was away we managed to block two more memories (Sophie’s last two memories) and now I have blocked all of the scenes in class that I have blocked in my script, so I’ll need to do a lot more blocking this weekend. I really want to do a run through start to finish as we are about 3/4 of the way through now and i think many scenes will need tidying up and people will need to be reminded of things that they haven’t written in their scripts (eg the coregraphy on Alex’s first memory). I would like to do that for the double on Tuesday, because that way we could do a full run through period four, then do tidy ups at lunch and continue blocking period five. I just want to say thank you to the actors for putting in so much effort, I know it gets tedious and hard to focus at times, but please stick with it and try not to get distracted because it looks really great when you all give your all. With the memory scenes they can either look very effective and transport the audience to where they are set, or they can die in the arse. All of this rests on the actors and how they create it. Eg. If you all are comitted to it, it will look like a jungle. If you do a half-arsed job, it will look like a bunch of actors on stage holding sticks and making bird noises. If you’re all focused and believe what you’re doing I know this is going to be the one piece of theatre from our school days that stands out, and that we are all really proud to have been part of.

Acting
Not much to report on the acting front this week. I’ve almost learnt all mine lines for the first void, which doesn’t sound like much but I say a heck of a lot in that one scene. And that’s pretty much it for now. Haha, I told you there wasn’t muh to report.

Until next week, au revoir mes ami

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