Physical and Staging Rehearsals
Wednesday 23rd April 2014
Today was our first Physical Theatre
session using the college stage as a rehearsal area. Our goal was simple to rehearse as many
scenes, from the play ‘Junk’, as we could.
The idea of implanting our Physical Theatre lessons into our production
process was to ensure that there would be more time spent on rehearsing our
lines as well as getting a plan of how we were to physically present the
characters and scenes. Previously in our
first Physical Theatre lesson, focusing on the play, we looked at some video
footage to show examples of what it was like to live in the time period, of
which the play is set, and what the personality of a punk was like. Looking at these videos was helpful as it
gave us all an idea of what the characteristics of a punk were like, both
physically and verbally. But it was
today’s lesson that we began to plan our staging of certain scenes.
From the selected scenes we explored what
was happening, what had happened and what would the end result be? Looking at each of the selected scenes we
explored theatrical techniques in which we could build up the drama and ensure
that the audience understood what was happening. Freeze frames and slow movement were used in
particular. The freeze frames were used
to highlight suspense and for characters to present monologues, all to bring
the audience closer into the play as addresses what is about to occur and bring
the audience into more detail about the characters and the plot. However the slow movement was put to good use
as it was to increase the ironic slow pacing but intriguing story.
This
was a great start to rehearsing the staging of the play, as we explored
dramatic techniques and planned what we were to present in our next rehearsal. In conclusion, my input was making
suggestions as to how we could change the slightest presentation, such as
reminding what the time period the play is set in and what effect the a
technique would give during the performance.
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