For the start off to this week, we began with our second to last full rehearsal
of our 'Scaramouche Jones' assignment. We began with
finishing incomplete monologues that some people hadn't memorized yet, and focusing on them for a large portion of the lesson. We were especially looking at how the actor was to present their lines and be positioned on
stage, since the actor was not moving a whole lot whilst performing in rehearsals, meanwhile, the chorus was to analyze and once more read through the script and if there was any
way we could present the performance better. Again, all of this took up a large portion of our first lesson, but this was all helpful for our next rehearsal the next day.
For next lesson, we were looking at the opening monologues and seeing how much everyone else had remembered their lines,
and making sure we were all making notes in previous rehearsals to help us rehearse alone away from the classroom. There were a few times in this lesson, moments
when actors on stage had forgotten their lines and certain people that were away on the previous week in the
chorus had forgotten their movements and was obviously introduced to new ones. Our teacher prompted us to keep going if we were to forget our lines to keep the flow of the play.
When we weren't rehearsing so people could go over their lines, the rest of us had a talk to resolve
the chorus' issues and how
much we could all remember together, then take notes that we didn't know on our scripts so
we all know what we were doing in both rehearsals and the real performance in November. So to end the day, we had a final hour to decide what our
costumes were going to be for later rehearsals and the real performance. Our teacher took us into the costume
department in our college promptly called 'The Make-Up Room', and we all tried looking around for bright colored clothing
to visually present our own clowns. To start off with, I checked with my other classmates to see what colors they were mainly looking for. No one had said the colors green or yellow, so I tried looking for these colors in 'The Make-Up Room'. Luckily, I did find a green coat which no one had taken yet so I decided to wear that as my favorite color is green, and no one else was wearing green for their clown, so I had uniqueness to my clown. I also decided I wanted to wear this green coat with light brown trousers, since those two colors go together well in my opinion. During our last few minutes of the lesson, we had all found the clothing we wanted to wear for the rehearsals and the real performance.
The next day, we began with our teacher taking us into the theatre in our department, and we were to do a full run through of the play in the costumes we had chosen the previous day, working in the theatre gave us a better knowledge of the space we had on stage to ensure all of us were at peak
concentration. Again like the previous day, we started working a little bit more on some peoples
monologues, after spending about half
an hour on their monologue, we began another full run through. This session
was more successful as we managed to go through nearly all of it without slip ups
before we ran out of time in the lesson. People were also suggesting we had the chorus mime more through out the whole performance, but since we were so close to the real performance and mostly everyone had memorized the mimes, we disagreed on this idea.
For the last day of the week, all of us were off timetable and
started earlier than usual and stayed later; starting at 11:30am and finishing at 8:00pm having full on rehearsal for the whole time. This session was tedious but helped all of us a lot, especially for the people who still hadn't memorized their lines yet. We were back in the college
theatre and again dressed in our costumes starting from the beginning all the way to the end and we were to focus more on how much we remembered for both the role of Scaramouche Jones and the chorus. The first run through lead to a number of pauses for
script prompting and chorus discussion, but we still managed to go from the
beginning to the end of the play. Our teacher then after had a discussion with us of how we should conclude the performance. After a short break, we took notes on our scripts on all of these new movements for the conclusion to the play and memorized them all as much as we could. We started the play a second time, this time our teacher was writing down notes and was later going to review us when we had finished to tell us our pros and cons. After another break, we returned to receiving our teachers notes and
took a few minutes to look ahead of time to see how we could improve the performance for when it came to
another full run through. This
final run through didn't last long as we ran out of time, but
all in all the huge rehearsals to the long day at college will surely help us in the real performance.
For next week, we shall begin with the final rehearsals until we have the main performances, on Thursday 14th at 7pm and Friday 15th at 1pm.
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