Lewis & Clark Moodle

Syllabus and Guidelines

Syllabus, Course Schedule and Guidelines for Assignments

Just a test.

Mika and I just had our final rehearsal!! Today we really focused on making our choices bigger. We did one run where Mika went completely over the top being ridiculously annoying and I tried to convey a super crazy physical manifestation of my impending mental illness. This was a really funny run of the scene, it was high energy and lead to quite the laughing fit between the two of us. I am glad we did this, because it really pushed both of us out of our comfort zones, so when we rehearsed it again the "normal" way we felt much more comfortable and grounded in our characters. We have added some more switches in tactics during the fight as well. This was a very important addition to the scene, because I think at a certain point the fight portion of the scene gets a bit boring. Can't wait to show you all so soon!!

So although Emma and I weren't able to find time to rehearse before our meeting with Rebecca, we still made so much progress. Rebecca is just so smart, it's like she's an acting professor or something? Hahaha. During our meeting, Emma and I were able to raise the stakes even more by incorporating that "pinch, ouch" thing that Rebecca always talks about. I even surprised myself at certain times with how much I got into the scene, even Emma could feel it when I yelled at her. Overall, an amazing meeting and I wish we could've had more time with Rebecca.

Emma and I were able to meet up once on Friday in order to get some final practices in before the big performance. All these rehearsals have definitely made me more confident and excited to perform one last time. This has been one hell of a semester and I'm glad I could try out acting for this first and final time.

Good luck to everyone!

Meanwhile in the world of Olivia and Dylan, we just finished the final rehearsal and are feeling really comfortable and excited for tomorrow. Today was all about incorporating Rebecca's notes from the one-on-one, which were all about high stakes and opening up the chest. On top of it all, we're excited for one last run with all of you.

PS. I'm serious about the athletic cup. Does Target or Fred Meyer sell them? Or maybe I could cut up a plastic bottle or something.

As the last week of classes wrap up Lulu and I feel like it is harder to find time to rehearse. As finals approach us there is less free time for us to practice so we need to take advantage of every time we do get to rehearse and make sure we get the things done that we need to. After showing our second round of our scene yesterday I feel confident in the progress we made and where we are going. I felt that we have improved a lot and I feel that we have incorporated the notes that were given to us from our first showing. I am excited to get this 1 on 1 with Rebecca and show the rest of the class our final scene. It's going to be a lot of fun! We look forward to it!

We've been exploring different ways of moving about the space - especially working with our set piece, which is a ridiculously small couch, which forces the characters to sit very close to one another. We feel like the couch acts as a kind of metaphor for the sudden intimacy between them that they don't know how to navigate. We didn't plan on using the couch, but it just happened to be there in the theatre and it has turned out to be really helpful to our scene. 

Also, in running the scene numerous times, we're finding new ways to come at lines and how to give the scene new life each time. It's been fun! 

We rehearsed on Sunday the 27th and explored the space and our set properly for the first time. We both had our lines memorized and we had the basic props we needed to use. We went through the lines multiple times to make sure we both remembered them well enough and then went through the entire scene and tried out movements in the space. Afterwards, we talked about what we liked and didn't like and made decisions on a lot of those gestures and movements. We also spoke about our final prop list and decided on costumes as well. We also found a way to make our bed seem like a sofa bed without moving too many things. We tried a couple of ways for lying on the bed and finally came up with one that we both liked so that we would still be visible to the audience.

This week we worked a lot on further developing our characters. Mika wanted to be sure that she worked more on the annoying Claire/over the top voice. And I have been focusing on the given circumstances of Catherine more as well. I'm really starting to integrate this idea that Catherine is crazy ( or at least thinks she's crazy into the scene). At the beginning of the scene Catherine is obviously thinking about hallucinating her dad last night and about how she might be crazy, but she doesn't quite show it. However, throughout the scene as Claire is interagating her, this unravels a bit, and Claire becomes more and more aware of it, which might inform some of Mika's lines. I think that it is important that Mika and I focus on the beat changes throughout the scene and the obstacles and objectives of our characters but that we also play our super-objectives (mine is to convince myself and my sister that I am not crazy).