Gabriel Huerta

On Monday in class, Georgia and I went through our entire play and deciphered which parts we needed to memorize more thoroughly. We scheduled a rehearsal for Tuesday, in which we put together an initial layout for our scene (pictured below) and determined the initial lighting, aside from performing to ourselves a few times to solidify memorization. We both felt good about the performance of our scene on Wednesday in class, but we couldn’t figure out what was quite missing. This uncertainty was mostly resolved by our rehearsal with Amber on Saturday evening - the lighting was improved to show our faces more, and the couch and piano switched positions to use the lighting to our advantage. We are still unsure how to incorporate the stairs prop, but will figure it out as rehearsals progress, both in and out of class. We also clarified the level of physical intimacy between Elias and Jenny, which will definitely improve the reality of our scene.

One challenge to face in the coming weeks is the particular part of the scene where Elias has to yell at Jenny. Amber offered lots of helpful insight in regard to it, but it is ultimately up to Gabe to deliver the lines in a way that justifies Elias’ anger while maintaining a distance from the content of the scene / action due to anger.