Monday:
On the first lesson on Monday the first thing we were working with Rob on was stretching and vocal warmups. We all went around the circle to each individual who would show the rest of the class their stretch which everyone had to copy. By this point most people had lost that initial shyness or that feeling of being uncomfortable when making the chewing gum sound or shouting out "ba ba ma ma da da dah" and that includes me. After stretching we went straight into working on the party scene.
We had developed a small dance that all the guys and girls do at the party in the beginning just to give the scene more personality. I had also been instructed to work on my timing and to stay conscious of where I am on stage and when I should walk up towards the front of the stage to talk to the audience. One other scene that we had worked on was the fight scene between Tybalt, Romeo and Mercutio. In the beginning I was exaggerating Tybalt's anger but Rob had told me to instead underplay the anger and that was turned into a calm emotion with sarcasm. I found this very helpful as in in the beginning of that scene, Tybalt does seem to come across in the beginning as quite sarcastic rather than extremely angry "Gentlemen, good e'en". We were mostly just polishing those scenes.
In the next lesson with Sharon, we had shown her the all the scene we had worked on from the top. As we performed it was still clear that the swift change from one scene to another still wasn't there yet but apart from that there was no corpsing and all the scenes had been executed quite nicely as Sharon had told us afterwards. What we were told was to work on fight scenes and maybe add others and a bit more detail to them and give the prince more of a purpose to halt us, and to make Caputlet's line "What's all this noise" make a lot more sense.
Tuesday:
In the first lesson we were building upon the scenes post Tybalt's death. One thing that we had developed was the emotion behind everyones reaction that Tybalt had died. For example Tybalt's aunt walked into the scene with no emotion and just saying lines, and that made it so that there wasn't really a character being played. What Rob always reminded us was that we always need to keep our purpose of what we are meant to be doing in a scene in mind when working on a scene. One comedic thing that was added was Ilonka's character who is Romeo's mother saying "That's my son" as a reply to the prince talking about how he wants to sentence Romeo to death, and that gave the scene more personality.
In the next lesson we were going through tutorial material for the first part of the lesson and in the second we went down to the theatre and did a run through for the tech theatre students to light. Apart from the exception of a couple of students forgetting to come on at the right scene it went quite smoothly with no corpsing and the change from one scene to another was much faster than yesterday. I quite enjoyed the tech students doing the lights and they even turned on different kinds of music for different scenes and I enjoyed having really tense yet epic music during Mercutio and Tybalt's fighting scene.
Wednesday:
On Wednesday we had spent our lesson in the theatre and we were brushing up on some of the scenes and adding some more details. One example of this was when the Prince said that Romeo shall be executed and the person playing Romeo's mum shouts that's my son.
Ilonkas's that my son
Molly shaking me as she lost her son me
Romeo and Juliet scene was worked upon
Costume
Thursday:
On Thursday we spent the first half of the lesson going through potential costumes and props and I found a nice leather jacket, which in my opinion perfectly reflected what I deemed to be what a modern day Tybalt would look like. We also found flowers for the balcony too which would help viewers to see Dylan and I knelling down more like a balcony. We had then run through the play once as we had some time left on our hands, and Rob critisied the lack of speed between scene changes which we still needed to work on. We now only had Monday left on our hands before the performance was to happen and the mixture of students not appearing, the disappearance of the characters who were meant to play Prince and Nurse, and slow speed changes from one scene to another had clearly effected the student's optimism for the play going well. In my opinion, everything was moving smoothly, and I had a feeling that everything was to go well in the end.
Costumes and we were 222 and we went through the whole play
On the first lesson on Monday the first thing we were working with Rob on was stretching and vocal warmups. We all went around the circle to each individual who would show the rest of the class their stretch which everyone had to copy. By this point most people had lost that initial shyness or that feeling of being uncomfortable when making the chewing gum sound or shouting out "ba ba ma ma da da dah" and that includes me. After stretching we went straight into working on the party scene.
We had developed a small dance that all the guys and girls do at the party in the beginning just to give the scene more personality. I had also been instructed to work on my timing and to stay conscious of where I am on stage and when I should walk up towards the front of the stage to talk to the audience. One other scene that we had worked on was the fight scene between Tybalt, Romeo and Mercutio. In the beginning I was exaggerating Tybalt's anger but Rob had told me to instead underplay the anger and that was turned into a calm emotion with sarcasm. I found this very helpful as in in the beginning of that scene, Tybalt does seem to come across in the beginning as quite sarcastic rather than extremely angry "Gentlemen, good e'en". We were mostly just polishing those scenes.
In the next lesson with Sharon, we had shown her the all the scene we had worked on from the top. As we performed it was still clear that the swift change from one scene to another still wasn't there yet but apart from that there was no corpsing and all the scenes had been executed quite nicely as Sharon had told us afterwards. What we were told was to work on fight scenes and maybe add others and a bit more detail to them and give the prince more of a purpose to halt us, and to make Caputlet's line "What's all this noise" make a lot more sense.
Tuesday:
In the first lesson we were building upon the scenes post Tybalt's death. One thing that we had developed was the emotion behind everyones reaction that Tybalt had died. For example Tybalt's aunt walked into the scene with no emotion and just saying lines, and that made it so that there wasn't really a character being played. What Rob always reminded us was that we always need to keep our purpose of what we are meant to be doing in a scene in mind when working on a scene. One comedic thing that was added was Ilonka's character who is Romeo's mother saying "That's my son" as a reply to the prince talking about how he wants to sentence Romeo to death, and that gave the scene more personality.
In the next lesson we were going through tutorial material for the first part of the lesson and in the second we went down to the theatre and did a run through for the tech theatre students to light. Apart from the exception of a couple of students forgetting to come on at the right scene it went quite smoothly with no corpsing and the change from one scene to another was much faster than yesterday. I quite enjoyed the tech students doing the lights and they even turned on different kinds of music for different scenes and I enjoyed having really tense yet epic music during Mercutio and Tybalt's fighting scene.
Wednesday:
On Wednesday we had spent our lesson in the theatre and we were brushing up on some of the scenes and adding some more details. One example of this was when the Prince said that Romeo shall be executed and the person playing Romeo's mum shouts that's my son.
Ilonkas's that my son
Molly shaking me as she lost her son me
Romeo and Juliet scene was worked upon
Costume
Thursday:
On Thursday we spent the first half of the lesson going through potential costumes and props and I found a nice leather jacket, which in my opinion perfectly reflected what I deemed to be what a modern day Tybalt would look like. We also found flowers for the balcony too which would help viewers to see Dylan and I knelling down more like a balcony. We had then run through the play once as we had some time left on our hands, and Rob critisied the lack of speed between scene changes which we still needed to work on. We now only had Monday left on our hands before the performance was to happen and the mixture of students not appearing, the disappearance of the characters who were meant to play Prince and Nurse, and slow speed changes from one scene to another had clearly effected the student's optimism for the play going well. In my opinion, everything was moving smoothly, and I had a feeling that everything was to go well in the end.
Costumes and we were 222 and we went through the whole play
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