9th-14th November weekly review

During the rehearsal process this week, we have been rehearsing alot in the hall, which is good because its where we are performing the piece, and practicing in the hall will give us a clear idea of how much space we will have, and where the audience will be, The entire class has been working on alot of physical theatre, for example the station scene, and the beginning scene, we all do a marching routine in formation which looks really really effective, we also do this to techno sounding computer music, we have practiced this alot and its started to flows through really well and look good.

At home i have been individually been practicing the choreographed movement part at the beginning part of act 1, it helps me to remember each individual step and where i will be onstage in relation to other characters. Also i have been practicing my lines with the help of my family members, i have also been practicing the movement of my character, although i have found it hard to act my character well, along with remembering all my lines. As soon as i have all my lines remembered perfectly i will naturally find it easier to stay in my character as an old man.

I have been researching alot at home, watching more videos online, i also listened too the music that is used in the origional performance, that we are using in ours aswell, i tried researching into my character but unfortunately the original is Mrs Alexander and not Mr Alexandra, we had to change Mrs to Mr because there is a short amount of girls, but i do understand how to play an elderly character.

This week has been very successful, the performance is really starting to unravel nicely, we all are acting our characters really well now. The correographed movement parts are also being practiced alot and are really starting to look good. We have also now got really good music and sound effects to go with the movement scenes. Which makes the movement look even more professional, Everyone has taken alot of time and effort when learning their lines.

I feel we need to spend alot more time running the show from start to finish, if we get the play to flow through efficiently with everyone knowing 100 percent of their lines it should look really good, the character workshops from the previous weeks have really helped everyone in lesson to understand the movement of there characters.