Rehearsal Progress

So far rehearsals are going very well. We have participated in many activities that are helping me to grow as an actor and as a person when in drama. We first looked at working well as a group. We completed many activities to build our confidence around eachother and feel more comfortable when rehearsing. We completed games to build our use of character and conveying emotions through a simple word, and other activities to build up trust and relationships. These are really helping to build us up as a company and cast as a whole as there are many moments within the play where we need to all feel comfortable together and some relationships need to shine through.

At first i thought that id take to these tasks with hesitation and feel at many times uncomfortable, but i was surprised to feel comfortable in what i was doing and it really helped me to grow. This could then really help me apply most of this into my character and each rehearsal i am really developing my character like i havent before.

Ever since i read through the script i was excited at the prospect of working on and performing this play and when i was given my character, i was excited at what i could do with it as it is an interesting and exciting character to work on.
We completed devising excersises as our characters with another member of the class and i felt that this really helped me to learn how reacting differently to other characters is important and i got out of it how my characters movements are important to this play and getting my character across to an audience. When beginning to work on each scene in seperate groups, it gave me a good chance to work on my relationships around others and getting my character across. At first i was reluctant to really go for it with my character, but as rehearsals progressed i have began to really go for my character and feel is is progressing well. This is from expression to movement. It is also the constant use of activities with our class that is helping me to progress and develop as an Actor and us all as a group.

When working on the first scene where i sell a baby to Ralph and Lucinda. I had to really think about how i was going to convey my character to an audience as i am restricted from movement as i sit in a chair. At first my character here just seemed normal and simplistic. This made me realise how expression and dialogue in this scene is particularly important rather than just sitting there speaking. I felt that when i sat down and looked closely at my lines in the play, the more i read them, the more i began to understand them, and this managed to get across the humour more as the play itself has many humurous moments, and this is important that it gets conveyed to an audience watching. When we began to see the humour. I think it not only helped me, but everybody to work on their character more and i began to get many more ideas to contribute to my character, as well as looking at comedian Michael Mcintyre as my characters comparison for developing ideas further.