Today was the first time that both casts had completed a full
run of act 1 with no stopping. I felt that by doing this, I now know that the
performance date of next Thursday 16th April (for my cast) and Wednesday
15th for Izzy’s cats, is perfectly achievable whereas before today, I
was starting to get worries as we hadn’t get managed a full run with no
glitches. By running the whole performance, it highlighted to me areas of the
script I need to refine and go over to ensure I am totally line confident. The area
I need to focus on here is towards the end of act 1, where Lisa finds out all
of the citizens of Dissocia have been trying to keep her hour from her. I will
go over these between now and Monday, the start of show week, until I am line
perfect and 100% confident on my queue lines.
Another element of the performance we worked on today was the
logistics of the Jane scene, where Lisa and Jane have to use children’s tricycle
to move around the stage on as if they were flying in an aeroplane. When we ran
this, it turned out to be more challenging than we originally first expected as
the tricycle is uncomfortable when two people are sitting on it and takes a lot
of power to move. There is no real way to solve this issue, we just have to
bite the bullet and go for it whilst performing. By doing this, the scene also
adopts a humorous affect, visually which ties in with some of the comments made
by both characters on stage.
Another positive that came out from today was having the
ability to go over our entrances and exits and queue lines. I see this as a
vital part of any performance rehearsal process as if these are under rehearsed
or poorly revised, the whole performance would fall apart and not work out.
Personally as I play Lisa, my queue lines were my main focus out of these two
elements as I have very few times throughout the play when I leave the stage. I
remain on stage for the main bulk of the performance. I see this as effective because
it almost feels like with Lisa present at most times, that Dissocia and the
world she has invented is working and moving around her, metaphorically in her
mind. This cleverly links in to the fact that Dissocia is in fact not real and
this adds to the clues given off by the content of the performance to the
audience to make this assumption.
All in all, I found today a helpful aid in our rehearsal
process as it gave us a chance at a full run through for our own cast and also
gave us the chance to watch the other cast run their show. This is a useful way
of rehearsing due to the fact when you watch the other cast; you can pick up
techniques they are using in their show which you believe may work in yours. On
the other hand, when watching you get a chance to see how the other cast have a
different perspective on some scenes and elements, allowing you to see some
ideologies and ideas in a different light.
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