Monday 20th January 2025
We started the day of by focusing on trust exercises- relying on each other and practising the skill of building trust as its important to trust the people that your working with, especially when your on stage because in the moment no one knows what might happen, and its important that everyone can silently be in the same mind set and trust that the issues will be sorted. It's also important that you trust the decisions your co stars are making whilst on stage so you don't panic that they might course an issue that effect the performance. After this we moved onto a sort of block building exercise, which is designed to help us as actors get into that habit of building up our performances and using that tool set of "who, what, when, why" and really breaking down what the objectives are within what we're working on. This activity consisted of getting everyone in teams and putting them against each other in a metaphorical game of tug a war, were the rope we were using didn't actually exist and instead of actually pulling we had to use our body weight and facial expressions to convey a team of people playing tug a war
We then showed our pieces that we prepared the week before:
Tuesday 21st January 2025
Today I continued working on my man piece for the show case which is a couple sections of people places and things. I'm currently debating wether to just do two scenes instead of three, because all together it could potentially add up to Half an hour all together and I don't want to put myself in a position were I become over stretched, because I would rather perform two amazing scenes than three that aren't polished out enough. I've got the main cast casted and I've also got a director and a stage manager to help work on the piece with me. I hope to properly start rehearsing and blocking the scenes next week.
Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Today marked the start of our progression on our connections play "normalised", starting the audition process today:
I feel my audition today went well, and I am happy with the preparation I did in the run up to it- organising small pre rehearsals for it with the people I knew I would be working with before hand. We also got one of our fellow students to sit and watch what we were doing and give us active notes on it. This was very helpful and allowed us to play about with it whilst also giving us the chance to explore different angles- and delve further into the subtext. I also wrote some short character breakdowns for Rosa (the character I auditioned for) to help me fit my own subtext to why she gets so upset throughout the scene, as for me I view the things she says as not always what she feels- I believe she hide a lot of her true emotions and wanted to give myself that insight before auditioning so that I knew I had a better grasp on her.
We all also took some time before the audition continuing to go over pieces, this were I shared more of my scene subtext with my scene partner- adding to what I had written and diving further into the emotional beats and why they take and what both their individual approach to the confrontation is.
This extra rehearsal time also allowed me to go over some other groups scenes I hadn't had as much time rehearsing, just making sure that everything was smooth and everyone was on the same wave length
If I could do my audition again I would of put more focusing into the second scene I showed, as it was quite a tricky romantic scene and I personally feel as if I could of navigated the dialogue better before hand as I struggled with some of the phrases and sentences and making them feel right in the scene. I also wish I could do my scene again, because although I am happy with what we showed, I do personally feel like I could of relaxed into more in that specific moment- which is mostly down to nerves but I know if I had the chance to perform it again it would've been stronger. Overall I'am feeling okay about my audition, and have definitely taken on and improved with my approach to auditions since the Pinocchio ones- feeling a lot better about the outcomes and a lot more confident within the preparation.
Photos from auditions:
Thursday 23rd January 2025
Thursday began like usual, with a monologue session- beginning the session with a quick warm up game called Empire. This is a new warm up game that's been introduced to our class, and one that I found really got us all thinking and focusing on each others facial expressions and individual personalities. This is because the warm up was a guessing game- having to guess what character within a particular genre the people within the group had chosen, getting to make them part of your empire if you guessed correctly. This warm up game really forced us as a group to think an notice the small changes/things about each other, weather that be a personality trait or a quick smile- linking all these things to what character someone might have chosen. As actors it's important that we notice the natural small things that people do that link to who they are, because it helps us characterise and understand the people that we are playing. So for me this game was a good way of exercising that. We then moved onto watching a few monologues as further preparation for drama school auditions.
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