Rehearsals for 1st week of school.

23 march 2009
blackbox
full attendance

We managed to get the blackbox for rehearsals today due to the fact that the seniors were having exams.

THE AGENDA!

1) Lightings
2) Rehearse the whole play with the lightings and props.
3) check out where the sounds would come in.
4) comments from the rest =)
5) finalise settings of our play

ok so, first off, me and isaac set up the scene using our initial settings that we had planned weeks before, however, we realised that there was a lot of problems with that setting, so we turned the whole set around and the audience is now at the controls.

The settings is simple enough, for the first scene, the sofa woud be placed right under light 41, in the center of the black box(or close enough), beside the sofa, to the right is the table with the phone, wineglass and phonebook Chloroform bottle. The cardboard box would be placed at the other end of the sofa with the blue towel inside.

For scene 2, there will be no shift of set, however, Matthew's presentation would be at a corner of the blackbox, nearer the audience, we decided to place the tables under light 9, and on the tables was the display board and also the marigolds that our dear stacy had bought! Hamid commented that it so does not look like mutated marigolds, but, what to do? When there is no marigolds, we make do with cactus.

for scene 3, it is the original set minus the Chloroform bottle and the rabbit and towel. =)

ok, so on to the lightings.
we tried out the lights for the 1st scene with isaac and the problem was basically that the lightings that we used we not suitable cause isaac's face could not be seen, but sacy, our awesome tech man managed to make it work. I don't have the finalised lighting scheme with me so bear with it alright? it's with matthew so, i'll badger him to post it soon. =)

moving on to scene 2, there was much arguments over which side of the blackbox to place the presentation due to the limitations of lighting but finally we choose to use the yellowish lighting at 9. the setting will be such that the living room set won't be seen and only mattie and his presentation is seen. unfortunately, there was no music as stacy did not bring it with him.

the same is for scene 3 but with variations to the lightings at different parts of the play. again, will badger stacy to post later.

PROPS
ok, today, we brought most of our stuff but there were some missing items like the rabbit and the cage and the trophy. The rest will come in due time. We kept the props in the store room.=)

on to serious business, the actual acting of the play.
we had 4 rounds of acting(if memory serves me right) and i have to say that we were awesome! ok, not fantastic, but we improved and also, there was no major mishaps!!!! good job cows!!

haha.
ok, comments for scene 1.

Isaac needs to be more angry and display his anger in a more obvious manner.
good job for not smiling=)
then, his movements needs to be more fluid and obvious and needs to see his facial expressions when he wants to pick up the rabbit.
we also, timed the lightings and all that so, great job!!
fyi, there is no sounds for his monologue.

scene 2
ok, the first thing was that matt's expression could not be seen due to the lightings but we ignored that for now and just went on with the acting.
it was okay, matt needs to be more inspirational in the last part and need to memorise his script a bit more, other than that, it was good.
more hand gestures would be good.
the sounds for this scene is the gongs, applause and also the electronics.

last scene,
there were a lot of comments the firt time we ran through the scene.
Ruth: needs to know exactly where to pull matthew and needs to remember hre lines properly!!!
also, the moan must be more emotional and distressed. WZ helped...haha
comments from hamid that the fits was okay was such a relieve but still need to work on it to be perfected. scene with papa must be more dramatic.

Mattie: needs to be more worried about his sister when she is having her fits. also, he needs to be more scared of his father as the "bury Peter" part. Also, his last monologue must be more impactful. But the last line that he did was perfect! there was trouble with the movement for the moologue but we mananged to work it out!

PAPA: ok, papa needs to look more drunk, someone commented but basically, there was not mush comments for his part. GOOD JOB!

the sounds in the last scene is the theme music and stacy added the disco ball in his monologue to make it look more dreamy.

all in all, it was a good rehearsal albeit a hot and stuffy one.
we got to go through our play without interruptions and thanks to the lucky ones for helping us out.

Love, Ruth