Wednesday 8th April - Easter holiday rehearsal

During the holiday we had a day were everyone came in and we spent the day doing some runs of the first act. This is the first chance that we got to do a run of the first act without stopping to get direction notes or line prompting, this meant that it became really clear which sections of the play that we need to work on as a cast, and which bits for me needed to be looked into, either for line accuracy or where I need to work on my character, as I wasn't sure on my characters intensions. One but that I needed to look into was the end of the Britney scene where the characters start to interpret Biffer, I was not 100% on the order of my lines, but I really felt that I needed to look into how my character was feeling about living to Lisa, weither he is feel guilty and that starts to show or he is just doing t easily as he knows that this is what he has to do to protect her. 

Another thing that I want to work out, so that I looks smoother, is the entrance to the Goat scene, I came in from the side, then climbed up the tower the corner, so then I'm ready to be there to watch Lisa while she sings a song and calls her boyfriend. One thing that I picked up from my entrance during the run was that if I was going to come in this early for the scene, I needed to do it a lot more slower, and remain in character, and showing the audience that my main focus is Lisa and have that intensity with my eyes.

One thing that always comes as a worry to me when doing a show, is not being able to put all of it together until the last minute, but by doing this run I was able to go over my track though out the whole play, and how I will get form scene to scene, this run made me a lot less worried as I noticed that I never am very rushed from scene to scene and always have enought time to get ready.

I then spent the rest of the day watching the other casts run, I always find that helpful to watch someone else to do the same part as you, as you get the chance to go over each scene as you watch it but then you also get to see how the other cast do it and the differences between your two performances, for example the main difference between mine and Henry, the other casts me, is that I do everything with very animated actions and expressions, and he does everything very subtile and understated. This gave me some idea on how to deliver some lines in scenes that I was not 100% on.