At the moment the rehearsals, are going well. one thing i was afraid of at the start of this project was that rehearsals would be unproductive and meaningless but so far they have been organised and are helping develop our piece. each rehearsal is different and creative, for example. Steven got us to do team building exercise just outside the college. which was a great experience, also our character profiles were made this week which i found i could visually see what my character looks like to a whole biography of his life, this has reflected in my performances and i can feel the development growing. some of the exercises we a bit hard for me to get involved for example when Steven got us to lay down and visualize our character in our minds i tend to drift off, which didn't help my development.
One thing Steven has done effectively is his execution with his ideas, he brings it out in a way we all understand however he does lack at times to give us his reasons why he wants us to do it. i also feel that some of Steven's exercises currently focus a lot on the visual aspects and i would like to try more exercises which can help create my characters physicality as i feel i lack it.
with the lines we have been working hard and i personally am off script thanks to the rest of the group, we motivate each other to keep up and make sure we are all on the same page. for example Antonio who has the biggest task of all to learn the main role, he has being no stop trying to get off script, with our encouragement he has succeed. what i think lacks the most is the physical aspects and the blocking, due to the fact we were not totally off script in recent weeks we haven't blocked properly. at times i feel in some scenes i don't know what i should be doing. however we have so far blocked a good foundation in this play.
Overall we are on plan at the moment with were where at i couldn't see how we could of done any better. we all are very committed and passionate and it reflects in our rehearsals.
great news. regarding the physicality. it might be good to try in one of your rehearsals, really freeing up the blocking and thinking about physical scores, embodying the subtext, and finding some striking physical motifs which you can always refine or tone down. An italian run is always a good idea at this stage; it can bring up surprises, bigger expressionist moments and ideas to keep. See you thursday, really looking forward to it.
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