Caroline Wilkes

This week Hongyi and I focused on memorizing and then blocking the first chunk of our scene. We were having a hard time figuring out how to recreate a hospital bed so (as you can see in Hongyi's beautiful sketch) we are using six big black boxes and two foam mats to make a similar look.  The goal was to figure out a way to have the top part of the bed be at angle, like a real hospital bed with the remote control that changes your angle of sitting, so that it could be less awkward when I talk to her from a laying down position. 

We also worked on putting our beats to actions. We went through our chunk multiple times to see what exact movement feels right on what word or pause or moment. We have a lot of extreme given circumstances (as in I just lost my eye and Kayleen is drunk, covered in mud and in high heeled shoes) so it was also a lot to remember those circumstances and hold them in our bodies throughout the scene.  Hongyi brought her black heels to our rehearsal to practice walking in them as if she were drunk. The affect losing your eye has on your body was very hard to portray as it is me squinting one eye and trying to imagine what it would be like to suddenly have lost vision in one eye. Would I be dizzy? Would I I just be whipping my head around a lot trying to see everything? Would my depth perception be off?  Anyone with experience having lost one eyeball's eyesight (even temporarily)- please comment.