Emma Franco Cecena

And the show goes on... Over the course of the last weekend and this week, Kaili and I have been polishing up our scene, which does not mean we have not have been tackling quite a few challenges. One aspect which we intended to better was our physical movement. I believe we did have the kinesthetic response there in our scene, yet there was something missing to relate it more to our characters' given circumstances. After briefly making more specific decisions about our setting (i.e. the porch in our scene should be a wreck) we were able to have more specific behaviour. Another task was to pinpoint the use of dialogue in relation to our objectives and actions. As we tried to get off book, we realized that the more familiar we were with the script the more we understood how the language affected our characters. For example, for the first few scene run-throughs our sister fight was almost entirely loud and intense (some fellow people from Copeland asked me in E&D if that was me who was yelling at Kaili last evening). However, after more rehearsing, our use of language changed very much and -hopefully- now resembles the more nuanced transitions and beats in our discussion. I hope you look forward to assesing and enjoying our first showing as much as we look forward to peforming.