Michael Machado

This week after having our first rehearsal we had a lot of new opportunities with blocking with our new set up. This will allow us to create more diagonals and create a scene that depicts the text. Also, we have taken notes from I believe it was Dan? We have taken into practicing our lines in random environments that require us to focus on another task, like playing ping pong in Pamplin. This allowed us to get focus less on remembering our lines but more on what the other was doing. We still need to work on pinch ouch and listen could be improved on.

Another concept we have been thinking about is not trying to be ourselves in the scene but play some other person in the scene. Both Mike and I are having some character reversals playing our parts in this scene. Mike struggles with not driving the conversation and realizing he is in the lower status situation. While I am struggling with playing a character in power with such girlish charm I usually don’t have. And heels. This has been a new challenge for us especially myself, changing the way I say my words in rehearsal to sound unlike myself has helped me get a new and refreshing take on Claire.

We have also decided to rehearse for the first time out of class in the black box on Friday. I'm super excited for how we will act in our performance environment and how we can follow our impulses like Sydney, can’t wait!