Beatrice Newcomb

What We Wanted To Do:

This week we mainly focused on just getting memorized. I know, booooorinnnnnggg, but you know what? Not everybody is presenting on Monday. 

What We (Like Actually) Did:

We met several times both in and out of the Blackbox theatre to rehearse our lines. At first, we thought about doing them without blocking, but it soon became evident that we would need to practice with it just for cohesion as well as a way to help us remember our lines by tying them to specific movements. We actually could only get into the blackbox once, and that time we had to cut down our practice time because the class that was in there went a little late. For the next time, we practiced in an unused Howard classroom, which is when we decided to use the classroom chairs to actually plan out/perfect our blocking. We also tried to rehearse once using outrageous accents in order to try to help remember our lines even with extraneous circumstances!

What We Learned:

The activity we did looking at what happens directly before the scene starts helped us quite a bit here. The awkwardness of the scene really comes from a large amount of places, with the majority coming from Sam and Rose's history, but also from their change in management and recent talks with both the new management as well as Avery. This kind of paints how exactly we act in the scene, as well as how and why we have that 'pinch ouch' reaction to some lines. I think the self imposed accent exercise also helped a bit. Probably. Maybe. Hope so!

Problems We Encountered:

The only real problem we ran into was the same one we ran into in prior rehearsals, the same thing pretty much everyone doing the Flick will be able to relate to, which are the pauses. A couple of them just feel out of place, or unnatural. To remedy this, we cut out pauses any time there wasn't explicitly a pause in the script, and shortened some pauses that the script specifies as longer. Next time we'll also likely use video to record some stuff, and I won't have to write out long boring paragraphs!