Progress of 1st week's rehearsal/#35
During the first week's rehearsal, we've been working on our lines and blocking.
Firstly, we thought about how we could perform it to highlight the core of our adaptation: the cultural conflict between Caroline and her mom, and the flashback of Caroline's mom's old story. As a result, we created an intense scene one to mainly show what the conflict is between the two characters and set a foreshadow for scene three, where Caroline's mom dreams about her previous memory. Personally we did well when showing the argument between Caroline and her mother and attracting the audience to pay attention on Caroline's mom's emotions. Therefore, the audience could have the curiosity to follow the coming scene. Scene three is basically a long flashback between the young Caroline's mom and her ex-lover. We made this scene in order to remind Caroline's mom of her own story and thus let her understand her daughter. Our four scenes are completely connected in logic; therefore, it's essential for the audience to understand what's happening in the first two scenes.
For the blocking part, we actually did not consider too much when rehearsing, and therefore it became a big problem of our first performance. The messy blocking distracted our performance and confused the audience. We always felt like we did not when to move or stay on stage.
After receiving the feedback of our first run, the most common comment we had was the interaction among the three characters. For Caroline and her mom, it seemed like there were not enough interactions in the last scene where Caroline and her mom ultimately had the problem resolved. For the young mother and her ex-lover, the audience felt like they two were too disconnected and seemed like it was not the last time they would see each other. The sad atmosphere was not successfully shown to everyone. I think these are because we were not able to express ourselves more confidently and naturally. For example, there was still a gap for Caroline's mom to really act like an old lady. Therefore, the way she treated Caroline was not that naturally.
As for myself, I think the most apparent problems are the speed of my lines and the interaction with Caroline's mom. I need to slow down more and speak out louder. When having the argument with Caroline's mom in the first scene, I need more body languages to show my anger and impatience.
For the next week's rehearsal, our group needs to work on our lines since it's relatively short, and we also have to focus more on our blocking and body languages.
Firstly, we thought about how we could perform it to highlight the core of our adaptation: the cultural conflict between Caroline and her mom, and the flashback of Caroline's mom's old story. As a result, we created an intense scene one to mainly show what the conflict is between the two characters and set a foreshadow for scene three, where Caroline's mom dreams about her previous memory. Personally we did well when showing the argument between Caroline and her mother and attracting the audience to pay attention on Caroline's mom's emotions. Therefore, the audience could have the curiosity to follow the coming scene. Scene three is basically a long flashback between the young Caroline's mom and her ex-lover. We made this scene in order to remind Caroline's mom of her own story and thus let her understand her daughter. Our four scenes are completely connected in logic; therefore, it's essential for the audience to understand what's happening in the first two scenes.
For the blocking part, we actually did not consider too much when rehearsing, and therefore it became a big problem of our first performance. The messy blocking distracted our performance and confused the audience. We always felt like we did not when to move or stay on stage.
After receiving the feedback of our first run, the most common comment we had was the interaction among the three characters. For Caroline and her mom, it seemed like there were not enough interactions in the last scene where Caroline and her mom ultimately had the problem resolved. For the young mother and her ex-lover, the audience felt like they two were too disconnected and seemed like it was not the last time they would see each other. The sad atmosphere was not successfully shown to everyone. I think these are because we were not able to express ourselves more confidently and naturally. For example, there was still a gap for Caroline's mom to really act like an old lady. Therefore, the way she treated Caroline was not that naturally.
As for myself, I think the most apparent problems are the speed of my lines and the interaction with Caroline's mom. I need to slow down more and speak out louder. When having the argument with Caroline's mom in the first scene, I need more body languages to show my anger and impatience.
For the next week's rehearsal, our group needs to work on our lines since it's relatively short, and we also have to focus more on our blocking and body languages.
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