This week we focussed almost completely on scenes in rehearsals but for me especially it was learning/ blocking 2 new scenes, act 1 Scene 6 and act 2 scene 3. We were also going to run through act 1 Scene 2 as we haven’t run this for a while and we wanted to see if our characters and interactions have improved. Finally, in performing arts we would try to go through all our choreography so far.
When we started blocking Act 2 scene 3, it became quickly apparent that this scene would only work and give the hard hitting and gritty feel that we were striving for if it looked completely realistic and very uncomfortable. This was hard at first as to physically control someone when they are telling you through their lines that they are being hurt is a hard thing to do – however once we experimented with different ways we could portray this, our trust between characters and confidence grew which allowed us to become more physical and push each other more which gave a greater feeling of threat to the audience. We knew our intention was working as the co-director stated “that was actually quite uncomfortable to watch” meaning it looked realistic and therefore Danny really had come across as a creep that tried to control Sandy. Me and Taylor made this scene look even more realistic by the grabbing of the upper arm and pushing down so I physically dominated her. My feedback for this scene was to make the kiss seem more passionate and eventually forceful – I think this is achievable but only through doing the scene more so that we can build up the trust first.
Act 1 Scene 6 is showing off a slight bit of Danny’s sensitive side whilst still maintaining a slight bit of 'boyish' behaviour. His caring side was shown immediately in the line – “what happened to your ear? ... Look I hope you’re not still bugged about the first day of school” and so these lines I spoke softly withy body language gestured towards Sandy to show my focus is on her, however to show I still maintain some of the 'boyish' behaviour on the line “ me talking to a chick and thinks she puts....” , I will thrust and look out to the audience to show i am no longer truly focussing on Sandy and instead trying to be funny instead which is insensitive. Later in the scene it’s vital that the audience can tell Danny is secretly jealous of the “cute lettermen” and so he needs to be snappy and change my voice to a snide tone instead of being soft. I also decided to come across as really sarcastic and irritating for the line “ha...ha...ha” as this made the audience aware, I was trying to wind Sandy up. To emphasise this winding up sense , on the line “ hey patty when did you say those try-outs were “ I looked Sandy up and down before smirking and turning to Party where I had a very flirty body language to show how I am insensitive here and really trying to get on Sandy's nerves.
Finally, in Performing Arts we tried to cover all of our choreography that we had learnt so far and this was on the whole quite successful as I managed to really add more character into all of my dances as I had worked on my characterisation for weeks now – this was especially noticeable in 'Grease is the Word' as it has lots of opportunities to show specific characterisation for example the tableaux's or something as simple as each time we were just walking in the dance I could embed my own character walk. This brought the dance alive as no longer was it just plain actors getting the choreography right, we could finally see full characters the whole way through.
Next week we are planning to smash through summer nights song – learning all lines and harmonies, we will also be teaching the rest of the cast Grease is the Word’ and may even start to run scenes in Act 1 as we have nearly blocked them all.
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