Road week 5

This week was blocking the pre show of the play. This is the first part which everyone sees. Our pre-show is slightly different to the script as we wanted to develop the pre show by having all the characters.  

This is a picture of the staging of the pre-show. The pre-show gives the audience a little insight about what the play is about. The pre-show is good image to look at because there is a lot of levels and emotions going such as the difference between the Jerry who is a older and remembering the "past" where as Bisto is happy and playing some music in the pub. Also because there is so many people on stage at the same time gets the audience interested to watch the rest of the show. In the pre-show we see the Professor and Scullery do a double act about doing a video of Road which there character more others but they are character that explains the storyline of road. Making the video shows there relationship and how they are popular to other characters in the play.

We worked on the entrance and exits for each scene which was helpful for us actors but now it will flow a lot better because of the transferring from each scene. For example when I walk on for my monologue I push in between Bald and Dor to make a good transition.

 

We went from the beginning scene by scene. The scene that stood out for improvement was Louise and her brother scene. From my research I have seen that Louise's brother is horrible to Louise but I didn't feel this in the scene as there weren't having the contact they needed to make it uncomfortable to watch as a audience. To improve it I directed them to on the line "lets dance" to get closer so they are breaking there personal bubble that the characters both have and it looks awkward too because they are brother and sister. The video shows the brother breaking the personal bubble with his sister. The atmosphere is great in this now because of the eye contact which builds the tension. This scene now has lights and shades which is a brilliant scene to watch.

I saw the monologue of Skin Lad. The first time I saw this monologue I thought it lacked some confidence with the monologue wasn't sure that the facial expression were there. However the monologue is twice as more energy that what I saw last time. Now the monologue is got more eye contact with the audience which adds comedy to the monologue which is a great moment for the character as he is described by Lane Dor and Scullary as a "fucking nutter". The adjustments that I would make is to slow the monologue as you couldnt understand what Skin Lad was saying. I understand that his character is a energetic character who needs to be up and moving all the time however the pace needs work slightly. The physicality side of the monologue fits with what he is saying. For example the punching to the sides of the stage saying '1 2 3' works well as it keeps the pace up. The accent need to be worked on but Nathan did a good attempt of the accent. Compared to the first time I saw the monologue it has improved lots as he is confident with the lines gives a advantage to work more on the monologue to performance standard.