Notes from 15.45 dress run 17/4

Baggage

Blade + Gwen – Still not fluid enough at the beginning, need to make 100% sure that you are positive with your line and totally confident with them

B – Project your voice more; use vocal warm-ups and breathing exercises as tools to do so

B – Try tongue twisters vocal warm-ups and breathing exercises to try and deepen the tone of your voice

B – When bringing the chair on, put in next to the other one

Catia – very good, proof that ‘there is no such thing as a small part, only a small actor’

Radley – Add bistro to phone

R – Stand at mum’s feet while calling Victoria

G – Good fidgeting, make sure your mum is safe and comfortable

B – Loose the rings on your fingers

G – Project your voice when arguing with R

R – When you sit down next to mum at end, take jacket off ‘I am here to stay now’

Dark Matter

Paige – great volume at beginning, though went quiet towards the end, need to keep it at same volume, unless directed otherwise

P – make sure that your hair is out of your face

Alex – The slap needs more work to try and get the sound that is requires

Millennium

Frost, Antonio + Shaun – Need more energy, you are all on drugs that make you high and frantic, more for A + S

A – Come in quicker with your knock

S - Do not talk off stage

S – Run to Gwen, you are afraid of the knock

Gwen – Louder!!

A – Need to sort out costume

A – The line is “Have you come up yet” not “Has it come up yet”

F – Make more of the ending, stay on stage until 1 min into the next scene

Every Bit of My Love

Yiannis – How can we prevent you getting a nose bleed? What was it caused by?

 Y – Make sure that you are confident in your script, in your opinion; it is the best thing in the world

Radley – Acknowledge Y when he is miming the sexual positions

Catia – Fantastic presence when you walked on the stage, was really brilliant to watch

R – Do your dressing gown up when you see C come onto stage the second time

R – Don’t forget to say that you are a couple

R + Nicole – The practice rehearsal is hilarious, very good

R – Tyr not to lose your line and definitely do not EVER break character

C – When you come on with dressing gown, do it fully up so that we cannot see the thing inside it

C – When being sexy, undo R dressing gown

Coming Up

Antonio – Need to work on your line, making sure that you are 100% confident and secure in them

Shaun – Sit next to him when you apologies

S – When say ‘the lads’ punch him gently on the arm

Yiannis – Need to be wearing a tie or doing your shirt up while the play is going on

Y – Very good, keep confident and strong status

S – The awkwardness is brilliant, you are playing it well

A – Play with the “shit” line more, more worried that he is a police officer

Monologue

Both – Need to preset and come on the other side

Both – Don’t forget that this is not written for a performance, it’s just a monologue talking to her mum about a horrible thing that has happened.

Sophie – Louder with the shouty line

Samantha – Quieter with the ‘Fuck’ line