Every Single lesson (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) we would
split into our groups and start our rehearsals for our devising piece. We didn’t
have a schedule however at the beginning we would discuss whether we wanted to
create a new scene or improve the scenes that we had already formed. Every few lessons we would brainstorm our
current ideas and just talk discuss what we thought about them.
Throughout the rehearsal process myself and other members of
the group would experiment on ways we could use stage combat that is used with
in the piece. Some members and I have been to some workshops in the past which
has allowed us to use a slightly wider variety of stage combat and also allowed
us to experiment with our technique
slightly more. Personally I think that the “punches” that were being thrown in the
show were believable to an extent, I think that the only thing that didn’t make
it believable was that there wasn’t much of an effect on the character that I
was beating (black eye/broken nose).
Overall I think that the performance went good, there were a
few minor errors that weren’t meant to happen however I think that we just went
on with it and got it done with. One thing that I think really worked with our
performance is that the scaffolding in the back worked rather well through put
the whole thing; it was used pretty well for the date scene, the movement scene,
the other date scene, and the stage combat scene. However I think that it
mainly based around it when it wasn’t really necessary.
In my opinion as a group I personally think that we didn’t
work well together due to too many distractions and at the week before the show
few people decided that scenes we had come up with were too “cheesy” which I
didn’t really agree with but other people agreed so I just had to go with it
and make up something new. Another reason I say this is that during the process
of developing the ideas people weren’t taking it seriously enough and it became
fairly irritating when ideas that are good were being put down because some
people would say they didn’t like the song when it would have fitted nicely.
When looking at the techniques, I think that it went quite well
as there was quite a variety (Movement, Monologs, Split Screen, Stage Combat, Slow
motion) .
