4/12/14

Rehearsing 

Disadvantage- Your back will be to the audience at any angle.  

Advantage- instead of viewing from a flattened up perspective thrust staging creates a 3D effect. 

As an actor what are the challenges you think you will have personally being directed in this space? 

I think balancing out the space will be my challenge because you have three audiences that will need to be able to see you even if it's not at the same time. I feel I might struggle to even out the amount of times each audience sees me. 

 How have we staged the prologue? Why have we made this choices? What is the effect that is created? 

We had seperate taxi's and each group had a taxi driver, two headlights and a passenger, the taxi driver was sat on the red stools and the headlights were beside him with their flashlights, the passenger was behind him and used his flashlight as an extra form of lighting. We were all scattered around facing different parts of the audience so they could all see the same thing but portrayed by different groups. The darkness contributed to the effect that was created because it made a night time  atmosphere this was portrayed by numerous lights in the dark room.

Tale 1 - Girls   

What is your role in the tale?

In the tale we are all one person. 

How has it been staged?

We were sat on the red stools In two rows back to back and because there wasn't enough stools we had people sitting on the floor in another row thus making two rows back to back. We all had our flashlights to our chests and they were only shown at specific times when we were told to.

Why have these choices been made?

I think these choices have been made because the audience can see one of each side or even both and even if they can't the other side they can hear their voices. 

What are the strengths of this piece so far?

I think the strength of the piece so far is that everyone is doing a different action whilst delivering a line such as texting, calling or playing with their hair and we were all working together to make the piece stronger. 

What developments need to happen throughout the rehearsal period? 

We need to create a stronger relationship between our characters because right now we are not very cohesive as a group.