Shani Berenholz

During our rehearsal Thea and I decided that we needed to work on making our voices louder, finding the spots in the play where there is more tension, and realizing who our characters are. It was a little bit hard for us to focus because students kept coming in and out of the blackbox, which made us a little uncomfortable. We found out that they didn't realize we had rehearsal so they moved out, but it was odd because they kept opening the blackbox doors to see if we were still there. It was a little distracting, but we still managed to get some things done. For a while Thea and I just looked back at the script to see where we thought there were moments of tension and we brainstormed how our characters would feel in that moment. At the end of the rehearsal we decided to work on our voices. We shouted our lines to each other across the room and made sure that we were breathing. After that we still felt like we didn't know the spots in the play that had the most tension so we decided to do an exercise. We chose to just say our lines to each other while taking up the entire space. When I thought that my character wanted to be closer to hers then I would go towards her and when I felt that I wanted to get away I did that too. I feel like that exercise helped the most because we learned how our own characters felt and how the other felt too.