Tuesday 14th April - Technical Rehearsal

We spent the day doing our technical run. This is mainly for the technical team to get all of their cues in place and work out what we will have in each scene. For the tech run the person in the other cast that plays the same characters as me, was absent, so I did both acts for the show, where as everyone else swapped. I found this really helpful and I took it as an opportunity to have a ruff run with my costumes and to put in time to change my costumes and props. The only problem that I came across was I share parts of my costume with other people so I just had to come up with a time to when i was going to get these off of them. 

The scenes that I was in, in act one didn't have lots of technical ques, this meant that a lot of my scenes we jumped to allow time to get the other scenes done. One scene that really came to life for me was the Britney scene, this is because we have been rehearsing it for a long time without the sound ques, but by putting them it helped with timing of comedy and some of the stage directions that we do. 

When we did the ques for act two, it went fairly quick as we use the house lights, to give a clinical,uncomfotable feeling to the audience. As this act is only about 20 minutes long, instead of jumping from que to que we just ran the whole thing. This also played into me getting some feedback from Rachel our director about my character and how I have been using my voice to show the tension between Vince and Lisa. One of the main note that she gave me was how I had been starting off my lines in a high pitch, and had been adding to many levels to my voice. This made my character seem to lively and energetic. She gave me the note to start of my lines lower, and talking in a monotone style. This made me seem lifeless and as if I had given up with Lisa.

My target to do before the show is to go over all of my lines in act two, using the trick of starting off lower to add the lifeless feeling and make it seem as if I'm drowning on to Lisa. By doing this it will hopefully show a huge contrast to my characters in act one to my character in act two