WEEK 6:
REHEARSALS THIS WEEK
Tuesday 15th October
During rehearsals this week me & Prince continued working on our fight scene, going through the sequences, transitions and the movements. Also both of us were uniting our scripts writing down which sequence should go. Mainly me & Prince have just been playing around with our scene and getting into character, since the intent wasn't there last week. For this scene we've got to want to kill each other: Outside both of us are close mates but in class we're enemies. With the of Tyler he did an exercise to help us think about our character's more and what there objective is within the scene and visualise what's around us. While Alex was watching other groups pieces Tyler took me & Prince out to do the character exercise. With this exercise Tyler too us to the college field (On wet conditions) and look at as if it's the battlefield where Macbeth and Macduff meet. Both of us had to close our eyes for 20 seconds and think about our characters current situation, feelings, desires and objective. As I close my eyes allot of things slowly came to mind, issues/problems I have had at school, troubles at home and certain people I did not like in my secondary school. Instead of me just looking at Prince just portraying Macbeth, I decided to look at him as a boy I din't like at school who I really wanted to beat up, named Shaquille. When we opened our eyes, Tyler was asking both of us what we have got out of this exercise and what we're going to do to maintain the intent in our scene. What me & Prince decided to is as we went back to the Drama studio is to just not talk to each other and each time we made eye contact we would give each other dirty looks/screw face. The others seemed confused, they were not sure what was going on between us two thought that both of us had fallen out. This meant that this was working for both of us, thanks to Tyler the hatred between both of us is starting to build. Later on Tyler helped me and Prince choreograph our scene properly. As soon as we started I had to make sure that that I scare Prince and start strong as I deliver my line ''Turn, Hell-Hound Hound!!!'' when I deliver this line the anger and the hate has to be there. Also I want to make sure I scare the audience as well as Prince. By doing I felt that I had more of a connection with my character. Whenever it comes to me striking at Prince, my energy always seems to drop and I am always losing control of where I'm attacking. I have to remind myself that I am attacking & Prince is defending. The only good thing is, is that the intention within this scene is there. Now we could focus on the cool stuff now the FIGHTING :D. Tyler showed us a range of stage combat skills we could use in our scene. Some of them worked, Some didn't and some were not needed. Me and Prince have decided that me slashing of his head at the end is cut out because I feel that it does not make sense and I wouldn't be believable to an audience perspective, cutting off Macbeth's head with a bamboo stick seemed a bit tacky to me. So we have agreed to just end it with me stabbing Prince and saying my last line. After we ran the scene plenty of times Prince was really knackered because I kept making those stupid little mistakes which got Tyler & Prince a bit angry with me, but at the same time it's a learning process. I think the only problem with me is that while me Prince are running, the others come and watch and I'm too cautious or agitated of why they're watching our piece, maybe because I'm not giving enough energy or it looks great from what they can hear. To be honest I think that's why I'm messing up with sequences. To make our piece better me & Prince are going to message each other our lines and the sequences so that we don't forget what Tyler has taught us for me especially me I feel that I am the one bringing the scene down.
Since Tyler is not in on Fridays me and Prince remembered what he gave us here's some photos/videos of us rehearsing our piece!
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