AAS (39) - Going over everything!

In todays lesson, we ran all of our pieces from start to finish to see what stage we are at with out performances, and also to time them (to see how long our showcase will go on for). As Lewis wasn't in today, the scene from "Advice for the Young at Heart" was skipped, and we also had to pretend that he was shouting in the "People, Places & Things" scene. We decided in this lesson what our order for the showcase will be. We put "Curious Incident" between "Advice for the Young at Heart" and "Waiting for Godot" so that the too naturalistic scenes are split up with physical theatre. We put "People, Places & Things" fourth (rather than last) so that we didn't end on a depressing note - therefore we finish with "The Government Inspector". Below are the notes from how these two scenes went today:

"Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time":

• Our movement needs to be faster and more chaotic in the first scene as otherwise our slow motion section doesn't have the impact that we would like. The slow motion section wouldn't look like slow motion if we were moving at a regular / quite slow pace anyway.
• Ollie M needs to practice his dialogue for the Information section with the track more to know how long he has to say his lines. He knows his lines now, but the timing just needs work.
• James needs to work on his slow motion walking. Although he knows his movement and knows where he needs to go, he just needs to make his slow motion walking a little bit more realistic.
• We are having trouble with our tack, as we appear to be missing a line at the end of "Ed track 2" dialogue, meaning that the following dialogue doesn't make sense. Therefore, we will need to re-record this dialogue before I can edit the whole track.
• Although our first "train coming" section had really improved, we need to ensure that we are all perfectly in time with each other, when moving our heads, because if someone goes at slightly the wrong time they will stick out like a sore thumb.
• Our second "train coming" section worked really well today. Thankfully we all remembered our movements.
• All we have left to do for this piece is re-record James's dialogue so Ollie can send the tracks over to me, so that I can put the tracks together with the music underneath.

"People, Places & Things":

• Thankfully, I managed to remember all of my dialogue, but I had forgotten my movements for the first scene. However, this wasn't too much of an issue, as it doesn't affect anyone else; but I shall try to remember them as they work for my character.
• When Ollie M is the nurse, he shall now use my left arm as (not only is this the arm that is used in this scenario, but) it means that we can both be seen at all times.
• Hope's use of pace really worked for her character and made the scene more comical, however she has to be careful not to slur her words at times.
• Hope is really good with her use of pauses - especially the pauses around the line "falafel, it's falafel". However, we thought that she could do more of a pause before she says "I haven't seen it" in response to my "your mother sucks cocks in hell" line. This would make this section more comical as she is so calm and collected.
• We need to rehearse this scene with all of the props to ensure that we are used to using them. We also need to set up the lighting so we can practice with our black outs.