Tuse Mahenya

After the feedback from class on Tuesday, Tiffany and I worked on the maintaining the energy in both our scenes. We started our rehearsal with the distance exercise we did in class last week. Being the furthest apart and yelling our lines at each other was super effective because it let us both release our voices when running through the scene. The note for both of us going into the final scene was to 'share our voices with the audience' and I think this exercise definitely let us do that.  

What we got from looking at videos of our play before was that Detroit was a comedy, so we had been struggling with how to play that in our previous rehearsals. Knowing now that we shouldn't be looking at it like a comedy or like we have to try to be funny helped us move forward with making Mary and Sharon's relationship more genuine.

I've been working on the Magic/If of my character (Sharon) to figure out how each beat changes through her monologue (especially because she's vulnerable and a little crazy on top of being a loosely recovering drug addict). I spoke to a friend about the complexity of her character and they suggested I watch a show called Shameless, whose main character has similar given circumstances as Sharon (they're both poor and broke and trying to do better, and failing). Seeing the way this actor played these given circumstances helped me understand Sharon's vulnerability better. I'm excited to see how this works in our future rehearsals