Week 13: Director's Challenge

Focusing on Sections 3 and 4

We decided to have a small chat with the cast and ask them, now that we're getting down to the last few weeks before the performance, what they were the most nervous or slightly unsure of and we found that they were conscious that at the end of section 3 and the whole of section 4 was still quite new to some of them considering some people have been missing. We therefore decided to spend this week concentrating on section 3 and 4, and really making sure that everyone knows for certain what was going on and making sure that we had all of our synchronised movements in time. 

We purposefully said that we wanted to concentrate on these sections so that both we, as directors, and the cast themselves felt comfortable with the sections and also we wanted them to focus on the gaps between the lines and making sure that these weren't too long.

One thing that we did notice, as directors, was the delivery of some of the lines needs to change as there are sections where it seems like a conversation between two people and we need those lines to seem slightly argumentative so that we see a different in the tone of the people on stage.

Video of the final run-through of Section 3 and 4: https://youtu.be/q6UCxW-eUXU

In the video, we had to prompt a lot of people which is not what we wanted to be doing at this point in the rehearsal process and we wanted the cast to know this so we gave them a deadline for knowing their lines which is next week. Also in the video, the stand and turn is supposed to be synchronised but unfortunately it was not and so next week, I think we need to review the video as a whole cast and point out the bad and good points of it. I also would like to reiterate to the group that if something goes wrong, they have the power to carry on the performance and cover it up. I think that the use of tone in the video is very good as it shows the difference between the lines and also the difference in the opinion of the cast member saying the lines.