Some extra rehearsals photos from this week
Tuesday 20th May 2025
Railway children
Rehearsals continued as usual- beginning the day in a railway children rehearsal, were we ran through the whole show with my cast. Rehearsals are going really well for the Railway children and now its just about getting completely off book. Act 2 is a lot shorter than act one, and the transitions within it are simpler. But for me I'm finding it difficult to get it in my head and this is because Bobbi solely narrates quite a lot of the second act herself, which means I have moments were its just me talking at the audience. The second act of the play is also a time of character development for Bobbi and we see her actively take on more responsibility and become a bit too mature for a person of her age. This is a shift I'm still trying to develop, because I want it to be obvious that she's changed without making her seem like an adult.
The Lovely Bones
Today I also got to do a full cast run of the Lovely Bones, which is something I'm really grateful for as my cast has never had a full run through. Currently one of the main obstacles I'm finding with the lovely bones is transitioning from scene to scene and what scenes go where within the play- this is mainly because all the characters flow on and off of the stage frequently, even when their not written into the scene. This makes learning and remembering your tracks very difficult and it means that its even easier to miss ques when leading into the scenes that your written into. A way I feel as a cast we can work through this, is doing a full run through from scene to scene without adding in all our extra tracks. Just so we know were things are placed within the show, so we can then add our extra tracks back in whilst being able to confidently flow into the written scenes.
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