A Full Run Through
The beginning of this week lead to the second to last full on rehearsal of our 'Scaramouche Jones' assignment. Monday's lesson began with us finishing incomplete monologues and focusing on them inparticularly. Looking at how the actor was to present their lines and be positioned on stage, whilst the chorus was to analyse the script and if there was any way we could present this. This took up the whole of the first lesson seeing how we could present the unfinished monologues, then knowing more or less the basic structure of the entire play, which would then lead to a full run through of the play the next day. Lesson two on Monday was seeing the opening monologues and seeing how much we had remembered and how many notes we had taken in previous rehearsals. Starting with my opening monologue and seeing how far we could go, and we managed to get through the first three monologues, however there were a few moments when actors on stage forgot their lines and certain people in the chorus forgot their movements. So to an actor forgetting their lines, our teacher prompted us to keep the flow of the play. Whereas resolving the chorus' issues we turn to each other and had a conversation to how much we could remember all together, then take notes in our scripts so we could be a step ahead of the game, for the full run through. These lessons were pretty successful, in the sense that we were able to give each actor a decent amount of movement on stage for when it came to be their turn to present their lines, and get a decent understand of what the chorus was meant to do on stage for the first few monologues. So to end Monday's lessons we had a final hour to decided what our costumes were going to be. Our teacher took us into the costume department and we looked main at the bright coloured clothing to visually present our own clowns. While in the motion picture version of 'Scaramouche Jones' Pete Postlethwaite portrayed the character with a more darker tone by giving the clown a very dark clown like costume. With the use of a tailed jacket, big clown shoes, white shirt, white fingerless gloves and a bold patched wig. Whereas I wanted something similar but with more use of colour. So I went with a purple shirt, with braces and checkered trousers, converse shoes, white fingerless gloves and a top hat. Showing a little reference to Pete Postlethwaite and having a little more uplifting colourful clown. By the end of the day we all had our own clown costumes.
Tuesday began with us having a full run through of the play in the theatre, giving us a better atmosphere to work in to ensure good concentration. So we started working a little bit more on some monologues which needed a little work on, by after spending about half an hour on their monologue we began the full run through. This session was mildly successful as we managed to go through as many as we could before we ran out of time. We also had some disagreements about adding in new elements to mime out scenes, but in the end we managed to conclude on having the chorus mimes written down in our scripts and no longer changing them just altering them and adding in key position to end the play. So in summary Tuesday was mild success and we were now prepared to have a full run through in our big rehearsal day.
Wednesday was a very different day as we were off timetable and started from 11:30am and finished a 8:00pm having full on rehearsal. This session was very successful. We started back in the college theatre and dressed in costume starting from beginning to end and seeing how much we had learnt and remembered from both the dialogue and the chorus movement. The first run through lead to a number of pauses for script prompting and chorus discussion but we managed to go from the beginning to the end. Discussing with our teacher how certain people were to do their scripted mimes and movement out of the chorus, alongside our teacher suggesting how the conclusion of the play should be presented. After a break we took notes on all of these movements and memorised as much a we could. Going back into a full run through starting back at the beginning again our teacher took notes and gave us her feedback once we successfully went through the whole play. Once again after another break we returned absorbing our teachers notes and took a few minutes to see how we could improve for when it came to yet another run through from the beginning to see how we had improved. This final run through didn't last long as again, we ran out of time, but all in all the huge rehearsal was very successful and very handy to resolve our problems in our acting and our chorus presentation for when it comes to next week.
Next week shall begin with final rehearsals until we have the main performances, on Thursday 14th at 7pm and Friday 15th at 1pm.
Hi frank
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