Our project keeps getting pushed off due to people being absent, but we are making the best of it. All of the scenes are difficult to rehearse if even one person is missing. This is because of the awkward silences and the back and forth between groups of people. Our blocking is roughly set, but it still needs work. There have often been times where people in our group know what the plan is, while other people don’t. As much as we have tried to all share ideas, it stills seems as though we are not all on the same page. This is difficult to have in a group of five and I feel this is one of our biggest struggles. We are great at dividing and conquering to get individual work done, but as we are blocking, it is difficult to all be on the same page. This is not to say we don’t listen to each other’s ideas and all contribute, but there are definitely some differences in the way we interpret each other’s ideas. Having a wide range of ideas has worked well, but as we work toward a final draft we definitely need to do a better job making sure we are all looking for the same outcome of the scene.
For the first time running our performance all the way through, the outcome was pretty good. We still have a lot to work on. We all need to work on our characterizations and learning to further exaggerate our roles. In addition, we need to work on our relationships with each other. I think Wiebke and I were doing a decent job working together to show our character’s and their relationship, but we were not as good when talking to the other people. This would help with a few more establishing lines to show the prior relationships between each of the character’s. This is especially needed between Adler and Charlie’s characters. Another way we can work to improve this is by memorizing and feeling more comfortable with our lines. In my case specifically, I will be able to add comedic elements in some ad-libbed lines when I get more comfortable.
The next step for our group is to go back to the script and add a few more lines like the establishing ones I mentioned above as well as a few more lines for Bob and Allan to embellish their comedic characterizations. After this, we must proceed to learn our lines to the best of our abilities. Once we accomplish this we can abandon our scripts for good and work on the characterizations, the relationships, the energy and other pieces as needed. After today, a few other pieces will certainly be pacing, filling dead space, and projecting more. As one of the last details, we need to work on making the scene changes smoother. It was our first time today, so they may become more efficient on their own. However, we may also need more people to help because of the various props that are left on stage and then need to be returned on stage. This is difficult to operate with five people as it is difficult enough to carry the furniture without worrying about the props like the phone and the glasses.
To recap, our group is doing decent. We need to put in more effort to know our lines. Most of us were off script, but some people still were which made the flow and the energy troublesome. Even the people who knew their lines need to become more familiar with the lines. First we need to add a little more and them all know our lines. This will greatly improve our staging abilities and help us resolve many of the problems and mistakes that occurred in our first runthrough.
As for the other group, they had some of the same problems and some problems that were very different. Both groups definitely had a problem with projection and both created a little confusion as a result. The other group needs to work on showing the time changes because it was very difficult to follow. This could also be due to the quick pace. The scene changes seem to happen very close together. Their skit also was much different as they had more dialogue and less action while we had more action and less dialogue. Without the actors projecting, it was difficult to understand what was going on in their scene.
Diagram for scenes 1 and 3
Diagram for scene 2
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