Keshav Eldurkar

After our individual coaching with Rebecca we had one more rehearsal in a classroom in Miller. We talked about the notes Rebecca gave, including not pausing too much and letting each other's words really impact ourselves and our body movements. We worked on that a lot for the first twenty minutes of rehearsal, but I think we were struggling to find the proper deliveries for a couple of the lines. It really helped to think about the given circumstances in those situations, so we ended up getting what we wanted out of that rehearsal after about an hour. I think we were both curious how other people would interpret the text of the script so we ended up looking up a production of the play on Youtube. Interestingly, Callie and Peter in that scene were sat really close together and the deliveries of the lines were very optimistic and eager to talk to each other, which was definitely a change from what we had been doing. Also Peter was a woman, which implied some history of Sara that made the story different. We didn't take any specific blocking from the scene, but it was still very interesting to see another point of view. 

Overall, I think both Taylor and I learned a lot from working on this scene, about our acting strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies. It was a different kind of scene for both of us, but I think we ended up coming out as better actors.