We arrive to our final week for the assignment of 'Scaramouche
Jones', we begin the day with our final rehearsals before the main performance later on in the week. These rehearsals consisted of us having a
full fun through, without any hesitation, and making any final tweaks towards
our final production.
On Monday, we began with our normal timetables again, although our main focus was drawn onto the
performance. To start with we prepared ourselves by putting on our costumes
and putting all scripts to the one side, and we simply started by seeing how far we could go
without any mistakes. The lessons today consisted
of minor errors when a member of the cast would forget their lines, or chorus
members would forget their queues. However the groups confidence didn't change, it never has since the start of the assignment, we just had to have high hopes that these people would start being more serious about this performance and learn their lines more thoroughly. All these errors were resolved by taking notes
in our scripts once more and rehearsing with them as much as our own lines.
Tuesday consisted of the whole day being near same as Monday, full on
rehearsals until the end of the day. While yesterday we managed to
succeed in running through the whole play with minor mistakes to lines given, the only problem was that members
of the cast were missing rehearsals due to illness. However
today we had a full cast. We began our rehearsals again in costume, in the theatre, and no scripts. We did manage to go through the beginning to the
end of the play; but again there were some minor errors which were the same as the previous day, if not more than before this time since previously we didn't have the whole cast come in for rehearsals the previous day. The only problems everybody had were to keep up with the lines which lead to the chorus queues. Our
teacher helped the people who struggled with lines, prompting
them with a script to perform with for now, along with the other members of the group still going script less. The day ended with these errors needing to be fixed for the next day since time is running out until or real live performance on Thursday.
Wednesday was our final rehearsal day,
therefore consisted spending the whole day in the theatre, with full costume, and a video camera to record the final production, so after we could look back on these videos and see
the development of how we progressed to making this performance more intriguing
and entertaining for our audiences. Again, much to our teachers annoyance, we had minor mistakes with the same people such as forgetting lines and chorus queues. And sadly not the whole cast were attending on this day. We managed to perform play of ‘Scaramouche Jones’’ life
and show the plot to a teacher who was going to attend with the audience in the main performance. And his review of this rehearsal ended with happiness since we finally got it done, but not completely, since we still had the main performances. The day ended with all of us
going through some more notes and with helping people who still had problems with the pronunciations of some words.
Thursday was the day that our performance began in the college theatre. As each member of the cast did show up for this day. We started by preparing the stage for the show and getting props needed for the start of the play, and we brought
costumes and make up together to prepare for this evening’s performance. After a couple of hours preparing time, we began our last rehearsal. This was by far the best
rehearsal in my opinion, for many reasons including the fact that we had a full cast attendance with both the uses of props and make up. Although there were again minor errors, which included
lines and timing but they were almost unnoticeable to the teacher since she asked us to skip ahead if we were to forget our lines or chorus ques. When it came to the final hours before the main performance,
we had another run through; but this time with an audience. The audience were the Btec Level 3 Performing
Arts students, again there were some mistakes in lines and ques, but once we finished the performance,
the students and teachers gave a positive review. They mentioned how we worked well as group since we tried supporting each other if someone were to muck up,
and how we created a great performance with a great and
interesting story. After an additional sweep of the stage, it struck 7pm which meant it was now performance time. The performance was very successful in my opinion, our last performance with the college students in my opinion was the better one, but we still did the whole thing to good standards, and hopefully on Friday, we shall do the same, if not, better.
Starting on Friday after a very successful first performance, the second performance was to have
high hopes and surely won't disappoint. The
day began preparing the stage for this
afternoon's show. However, we had no time to do a final run through before our final performance . As soon as we were all
prepared in costumes and make up and with our props ready, our Physical
Theatre teacher came to see us and gave us a few warm up exercises to help in getting us
prepared and to calm our nerves. Finally we
had a conversation about certain moments in the play when people struggled with
timing and we looked at how the chorus would move and react, and how the actor
should pronounce/perform his/her lines.
Giving the chorus time to think for when they have to move forward for the times when they do forget their lines. The audience entered and then we finally began the second and final
performance of ‘Scaramouche Jones’. This Performance wasn't as good as the last one in my opinion, thankfully, no one did skip ahead forgetting their lines, but I felt that the performance was slower than previously and didn't have much life as before, but hopefully the audience got their moneys worth as after all the hard work in these past few weeks, we are finally finished.
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