Week 30: Classwork

Wednesday

We didn't have a lesson on Monday due to us having an inset day and so we decided to have an extra rehearsal in order for us to make up the time that we have lost. 

We decided to put our rehearsal plan into action and so we began with section 1 as we wanted to chronologically move through the piece and did one run of section 1 before we went through and made some improvements.

Here is the original run through:

https://youtu.be/BnzJCU03Zmo

After doing this run-through we realized that our piece starts off very slow and our piece starts towards the end, so the audience will have seen the journey that she goes through and at this point she is very stressed and worked up about the life that she has to conduct and so we thought that we could carry on that frantic way by using the riser more.

We thought that we could all stand in the riser facing outwards but in different directions and rotate towards the front whilst doing everyday household chores and having the different personalities react to the chore that they're doing. 

As the lines began, we started experimenting with the idea of using the riser like a hula hoop to symbolize the fighting of which personality has the mouth piece and it also looks quite aesthetically pleasing to watch.

This is an example of our experimenting:

https://youtu.be/XWaWAQ10sEs

We began thinking of ways to incorporate the riser more and we decided that we could change the use of the riser for each personality so it could be a person, crib etc. but the disadvantage with doing that would be that it could confuse the audience even more and so if we were to add that into our piece we would have to make it very obvious to the audience what was going on and make them aware that the riser's use is changing for each person.

One section that we found did need work was the section with the phone call as we need to get the movements more slick and also the space between each of the rings needs to be shorter to emphasize the phone ringing. We need to keep the pace up but slow down the speed that we are saying the lines afterwards as we are getting caught up in the momentum of the actions but we need to refocus on the speed and intonation of our lines.