In todays lesson, we worked through developing scenes 3 and 4 and bringing out the characterisation that will help engage the audience in our musical when we perform it later in December.
In the lesson, as I am not in scene 4 until the end, I worked with Holly and Jess to learn my lines and develop my understanding of the scene. We had a descussion about the scene and how some of the other characters interact with others and build relationships together.
With my lines in scene 3, Jess really helped me to understand the meaning of them and how my character jack would have been feeling at the time he delivers them. For example, especially the line I have to say "You see. I promised you more than the five gold pieces I gave sire. Now, I'm taking my cow". I now understand, particularly the end sentence a lot better than I did before. I know now that jack is to deliever the last sentence with passion and a sense of relief as he can now claim his cow back.
At the after college rehearsals, we focused more on scene 4. In particular the song 'stay with me' and approximately the final 4 pages of the scene.
For the song stay with me, we have done work on dancing around the Witch and Rapunzel whilst they sing and perform the song. This dance sequence is very ghostly and non naturalistic and sees us perform dance moves of a floaty and flowing nature. This idea of mysterious and flowing moves works weel as a back drop to the song, which is emotional and heart felt. It works because the dance moves melt in to the background, however compliment what is being sung and said.
Secondly, we rehearsed the end of scene 4 which is a dramatic scene to say the least. For this scene each character involved really push themself to achieve the best performance they could out of the scene and situation. We did this by throwing ourselves into the acting, not holding back or being to shy or apprehensive as to what we were about to say or do. I found this method really helped me.
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