June 7th: Drama

By the end of the rehearsal today, I would like to have taught Jack the additional scene we created yesterday which is a parody based on ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’.  I would also like to go over all the scene changes and moving the set around so that everybody is confident when the set is being moved, where, and by who.  Finally, I would like to run the whole piece uninterrupted at least once just to see how it flows.  We need to carry on through the mistakes and mishaps because we have Thursday to perfect and clarify everything.

In the first hour, we managed to teach Jack the additional scene and run it through a couple of times with limited space.  We then went through the moving of the big piece of moving set so we could all get used to it.  We had intended to do a run through whilst we had the drama studio but over the holidays, we had forgotten a lot of our lines and cues and were getting nowhere so decided to go home and have the lines perfect for our rehearsal on Thursday.  We decided to go through the additional scene instead and ran it through once.  We then asked Miss Woffinden to watch it and she gave us a lot of feedback.  She suggested that Olly’s character should make overexaggerated sexist remarks more frequently as the audience is quite young and will need a bit more prompting as to what the issue really was.  She also gave Olly tips on blocking as he was upstaging himself all th time and told him to face the front as it was really the auience we’re talking to and just turn his head to look and Frankie (who the speech was directed at). 

We also discussed having extra rehearsals because as the deadline becomes nearer, we are getting more and more worried about it.  Unfortunately, there are no other days apart from Thursday which we can practice as at least one person has another commitment.  This is obviously an inconvenience as we had exams today and had to miss and hour (although we worked through half of lunch) so our last rehearsal is the one on Thursday which means we cant afford to waste any time.

We watched the annorexia groups piece and discussed just how rehearsed it was and how everybody knew exactly what they were doing and when which is a slight issue with our group.  We also commented on how strong the drama in it was and started to doubt our own piece however, we reassured ourselves and each other by reminding ourselves that ours was a completely different topic and type of drama as we have incorperated a little comedy and audience participation.  We concuded that ours wasnt any worse (though maybe more under-rehearsed), just different.