This week is the final week of rehearsing before show week. Personally I think the show is coming together really well however we still need to practise with energy, accent work and relationship with other character that need to have the chemistry between the two characters.
The two character I was referring to are Joey and Claire. From rehearsals I have seen I haven't found the relationship between because they still not entirely confident with there lines. They need to work with each other more to get the relationship right. I think that the scenes they have with each other is suppose to make the audience cry because there scenes are very sad to watch. I think that Claire needs to be more emotional and more caring for Joey because Claire is going on a diet for her boyfriend. Also there is a part of a scene where Claire stands up quickly and then feels dizzy. This looks not naturalistic because the spinning of her head suddenly comes too quickly. I feel she need to feel the dizziness before getting up so then she is knowing how she is feeling. I think Joey's reaction is not a obvious to see. I have a idea to maybe Joey gets out of bed and helps Claire in to bed again. This idea will give some movement to the scene and wont be boring to watch. Joey and Claire need to be similar to the character Romeo and Juilet. The relationship between Romeo and Juliet is so powerful because of the love they share. Romeo and Juliet are similar age to Joey and Claire. Also the reason for the both couples are that they die for the other person in the relationship. For example Romeo kills himself for Juliet because I thought that she was dead. Claire went on the diet because of Joey.
In order to improve Claire and Joey's relationship watching this clip will make them improve the scene.
The scene that we worked on was the scene between Helen and the Soldier (Curt). This scene has come on leaps and bounds. The reason why this is because the physicality is so strong in this scene it makes the audience be drawn in and see what Helen's character is about. I has humour this scene but at the same time you feel sorry for Helen. the way to improve this is to work more on the accent and slow the speech down because the speech can be lost if Helen speaks to fast. The awkward climb up on the soldier is my favourite part of this scene because it is funny and something to different to watch. This one thing that I would say is to work on the northern accent at time because the accent can be dropped.
This week was putting all the scenes together and running the whole show in one go. I performed my monologue and I thought that this was my best so far. The reason why it was my best attempt of the monologue was because I felt confident for the first time with my lines and my character. In my feedback Kirsty said that it was brilliant and made her cry which I think was a great reaction which I needed. Also to bring the emotion in to the monologue helped and made me cry to. The whole monologue came out more naturalistic. The only improvements that I need to make was to articulate on certain words such as 'swallowing and throwing'.
Before this feedback I had to think of ten items in my washing basket to show anger but then sadness. For example turning the washing inside out and fold it and just stroking clothes when daydreaming.
Target for this week are:
Keep going over the lines to avoid forgetting them in the performance
Practise with the washing and get use to using the clothes on what parts of the monologue.
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