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Week Eleven

Posted on May 4th, 2007 by tilly26.
Categories: Theatre Journals for 100.

What do you call a fly with no wings? A walk!

Anyhoo…

Acting
I’m still stuffing up lines which is so fristrating, especailly going into that bit with Gemma and myself arguing, I forgot my very first yelled line and screwed up the flow of it completely. I don’t know if I’ll be able to put all the emotion needed for those little look inside the Guide’s mind bits when she does her little sililoquy parts off to the side until we get a full run through done, which I’m quite eager to do. Maybe next Tuesday during our double we can try for a full run through, no stops , that way e can go into lunch then use period five for lunch and a chat abou things that need to be fixed. Just a thought, I’ll ask Coops tomorrow. That way all of us actors can get the flow of things and see the parts that need the most attention.

Directing
So I had a talk to Jarrod today about audio and boxes. I like getting things done, ticking them off the ol’ list. Good fun. So that stuff is getting sorted out now. One less thing to stress over. Our rehearsal on (Monday? or it might have been Tuesday) when Coops was away was very sucessful. I think everyone walked out feeling very confident about it all. I think having just the actors there helped us focus as there was nobody else to provide distractions, and I know it gets boring for all the people who aren’t acting sitting there watching all the time, so with them gone we were more on track. Plus we had Mr Aiapan (sp?) there, and I think we all wanted to give our best and impress him. We ran from Sophie’s last memory through to the end. Now I don’t mean to get all negative, but from that run it’s clear that there is a lot more work to be done on many of the scenes and we still aren’t working to our full potential. This play is kick arse, and our actors and production team are kick arse, but thus far we haven’t had a single rehearsal that has been kick arse (do excuse all the language). The one when Coops was away was the closest we’ve been but we really have to get our arses into gear (there I go again =p). This show is on in 2 weeks, I’m not sure everyone realises the gravity of that. If people don’t know what they’re doing in each scene it’s not just going to come together on opening night. And don’t forget next week is pretty much out for rehearsals. So we need as many lunch times and after schools as possible for fixing crap. I realise how pedantic I was being about the tube today but little things like that are being done wrong every single time, even though I tell you to fix them. It’s in one ear and out the other with a lot of things. So please start putting 100% into everything that is done. It’s the only way we’re going to be able to make this show and our class live up to their potential.

 So to summarise: get your arses into gear and start taking this seriously and prioritising it.

 Peace.

(by the way thank you to the few who are giving it their best consistantly).

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