Peter Mayo Rehearsals!!

Well, I am very pleased to say our rehearsals for Peter Mayo, I feel, are going really well! I really look forward to coming in everyday, and enjoy doing a proper warm up to get us focused and ready for the day, which we all take turns in leading.

We have blocked every scene, obviously still needing work on them, but its great to have the initial blocking down so we can work on characters and developing the piece around it. We did a great afternoon the other day where we worked souly on our character work. We did an imagination exercise that helped us to visually create our character in our minds, then as we laid down with eyes closed, started to describe feelings our characters had, in certain times in the play. We have all also been working on our character profiles at home while in this rehearsal process, this is really helped me to develop my character and understand her even more than I did before by creating her whole life, from what her birthday is, to her favourite drink and her bedtime. This had helped me into creating her day, and understand more when the scenes take place in her life, what she was doing before and what she will be doing after. I love doing this for a character and trying to get to know them as well as I can in the space of time I have. I feel we've really bonded as a group, although we were close friends anyway, but the trust in the rehearsal room is highly important, and I feel there is a very high level of trust and respect between us. We did a team and trust building exercise the other day, which involved woods (college woodland), blindfolds, and being lead around and getting in touch with your senses!

 All three of us are off script which is now really helping in the rehearsal room, as we don't have it in our hands, it's helping blocking, movement and character development take place. There are still moments of all us actors feeling unsure of some lines, but I feel this is disappear over this week to come, as we've done the play many times through now, it's becoming muscle memory, so it will come naturally. Steve's direction and vision has been clear and his people skills and how to handle unsure situations or tough scenes has really improved, you can really see his development from unit 10, and how much he's learnt from it.
 We've been now promoting to show with encouragement from Steve to not only our families but branching out and finding our audience, which is highly important as we have a venue to fill! It's great doing this, as I'm learning how to pitch the show, what to talk about and how to get them interested. Our posters are starting to get out and about so we're hoping to see a ticket rise very soon.

But really loving this process so far, and can't wait to continue!

Samantha :)