April 30: Another rehearsal room run 30 April, 2008
Posted by Kate Foy in rehearsals.trackback
This afternoon’s run, our last in the rehearsal room where we began this journey at the start of semester, was the last comfort stop. From here on in, we are in performance conditions, and that means the whole project is at the pointy end of things.
The flow of the story is beginning to happen and the events are coming clearer as actions are played more securely and stronger character choices made. I smell confidence cooking. This is always good. And the actors are beginning to know where they need to go next; taking charge of their own development. This is also always good, and especially with actors in training, many of whom depend more than they should on the director in the creative decision-making process.
From now on, it’s into tech which is always a difficult time for all. For the actor it’s a bit of a hiatus … you can feel as though the play has gone away, to be replaced by mechanistic considerations like timing of cues, finding lights and so on. This is all part of the process of course, and it’s through these considerations that the play and the production as a whole steps up to the next level of engagement with the ways and means of the theatre. Next, it’s the audience to contend with.
But for now, it’s making the final step from rehearsal room into the performance space. It’s an exciting time when costume, makeup, props, lighting, furniture, the set … the new space itself … are integrated into the ‘pure’ acting work that has characterised rehearsals thus far. Time to focus and to trust the work and one another.
Here we go!
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