Mikayla Lopez

This week in our rehearsals, we are still trying so hard to not just memorize the lines, but also listening and responding. We both have had previous notes on not just saying lines, but really listening to what your scene partner has to say as well. We feel like if we can really try to listen to our partner that the scene will be more moment to moment, and have more of a “pinch, ouch” feeling.

One thing we are struggling with this week is the beginning of our scene, and making it flow more realistically. We both agreed that the story telling part in the beginning can become a little more awkward because of the lack of action while the rest of the scene there is a lot of movement with more conversation. Last week we had the note that we didn’t really start to drop in until there was movement with the conversation, so that is how we are planning to drop ourselves into the beginning.

As a side note, rehearsal has really been a struggle because I lost my voice on Friday, and seemed to only regain it back on Monday… It’s been a process, but has allowed us to work more on the movements in the scene.