An Entertaining Rehearsal
10th Febuary 2014
Another beginning with another warm up exercise to prepare us for more rehearsal and development towards our main performance. This entertaining warm up was to get every intch of our body prepared to the amount of physical rehearsals our teacher had in stall for us today.
Once we finished the warm up we went straight into a circle and read our lines aloud with our partners, to see how far we had come with learning our lines, the majority of us did very well, however while I had learn three quarters of my lines, it was only the last paragraph I struggled with. So once we had all read our lines we went straight into the on stage rehearsal. Me and my partner were to go first, as we haven't had much time to develop it on stage, and I think this rehearsal was the best one yet. With the pair of us presenting our lines, and offering interesting characterisation and almost perfect comedic timing, with positive reactions from both the tutor goup, as an audience, and from our teacher. It was an entertaining rehearsal leading to many laughing mistakes, but we had managed to create the scene and present our lines in the way of our characters to make the scene more enteratining and realistic.
Not only did it help us create an entertaining scene it also assist us in developing our characters even more. To begin with my idea was to present my character, Valentine from 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', as a character deeply in love and show the comedy side to it. But in this rehearsal we decided to keep the comedy presentation of the scene but have the last few paragraphs of the scene to show the serious reality of the fact that Valentine is in love. This assisted my character, by for my partner, who has the role of Proteus, Valentine's best friend, he has to portray his character in way in which he has to put doubt into Valentine's mind, to make him like the woman less and less. Then as the scene draws to an end Proteus has to then see the reality of it as well, giving dramatic pauses, he has to then realise that Valentine isn't joking he is truly in love. But what makes this scene more interesting and effective is the fact that, in our research into the play we discovered that both male characters are in love with the same woman, which brings dramatic tension between the characters, but in a way it works. Because this kind of a senareo would make a great plot for a modern day comedy, and again assisted us in making the scene more realistic and comedic.
Whilst me and my partner worked well together to develop our scene and characters, it was working with the other actors that also help the main performance as well. Because the other actor particupated in helping make our scene more comedic, and we assisted then in making their scenes more realistic and comedic to give the whole performance an entertaining feel to it all.
But then after our rehearsal we all had a simple question to absorb: Do you feel you've embodied the character? My answer would be a positive yes. I do feel after learning the majority of my lines and have had a decent few hours of rehearsal, I feel I have created a decent portrayal of the character Valentine. When on stage I feel very positive about presenting the character, showing his thoughts and feelings and giving a comedic yet serious tone to it.
Another beginning with another warm up exercise to prepare us for more rehearsal and development towards our main performance. This entertaining warm up was to get every intch of our body prepared to the amount of physical rehearsals our teacher had in stall for us today.
Once we finished the warm up we went straight into a circle and read our lines aloud with our partners, to see how far we had come with learning our lines, the majority of us did very well, however while I had learn three quarters of my lines, it was only the last paragraph I struggled with. So once we had all read our lines we went straight into the on stage rehearsal. Me and my partner were to go first, as we haven't had much time to develop it on stage, and I think this rehearsal was the best one yet. With the pair of us presenting our lines, and offering interesting characterisation and almost perfect comedic timing, with positive reactions from both the tutor goup, as an audience, and from our teacher. It was an entertaining rehearsal leading to many laughing mistakes, but we had managed to create the scene and present our lines in the way of our characters to make the scene more enteratining and realistic.
Not only did it help us create an entertaining scene it also assist us in developing our characters even more. To begin with my idea was to present my character, Valentine from 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', as a character deeply in love and show the comedy side to it. But in this rehearsal we decided to keep the comedy presentation of the scene but have the last few paragraphs of the scene to show the serious reality of the fact that Valentine is in love. This assisted my character, by for my partner, who has the role of Proteus, Valentine's best friend, he has to portray his character in way in which he has to put doubt into Valentine's mind, to make him like the woman less and less. Then as the scene draws to an end Proteus has to then see the reality of it as well, giving dramatic pauses, he has to then realise that Valentine isn't joking he is truly in love. But what makes this scene more interesting and effective is the fact that, in our research into the play we discovered that both male characters are in love with the same woman, which brings dramatic tension between the characters, but in a way it works. Because this kind of a senareo would make a great plot for a modern day comedy, and again assisted us in making the scene more realistic and comedic.
Whilst me and my partner worked well together to develop our scene and characters, it was working with the other actors that also help the main performance as well. Because the other actor particupated in helping make our scene more comedic, and we assisted then in making their scenes more realistic and comedic to give the whole performance an entertaining feel to it all.
But then after our rehearsal we all had a simple question to absorb: Do you feel you've embodied the character? My answer would be a positive yes. I do feel after learning the majority of my lines and have had a decent few hours of rehearsal, I feel I have created a decent portrayal of the character Valentine. When on stage I feel very positive about presenting the character, showing his thoughts and feelings and giving a comedic yet serious tone to it.
Well done Frank. Keep up the good work, you are making clear connections to work carried out in class.
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