Section to be completed before rehearsal:
| Play Title: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons | Rehearsal Date: 10/10/23 | Rehearsal #5 |
| Rehearsal Location: duPont 313 | Scheduled Start/End Times: 7:00-10:30pm | Page numbers to work: pg. 91-99; pg. 15-? |
| Rehearsal Goals | Plan to Meet this Goal | Notes |
| Finish table work | -restate our goals for table work | |
| Begin staging pg. 15-25 | -establish where the entrances & exits in each location lead to -introduce destinations & activities |
Section to be completed after rehearsal:
| What Worked? | Problems/Questions that Emerged | Notes for Next Rehearsal |
| Finished table work! | -picking a song for the unit where they sing a song | N/A |
| Began staging pg. 15-21 | -progress was slow off the bat but that was to be expected! -took actors some time to get used to transitioning from location to location as part of action rather than independent of it -I thought I could get away with having less notated staging, but it very much slowed us down -how soon can I get rehearsal props? | -figure out staging moments ahead of time!!! Especially transitions into the next locations -have rehearsal props prepared asap |
Today’s rehearsal was very productive! We finished table working the play, finding POV, connecting, and discussing wants and other circumstances. Then, we began putting the play on its feet! I was incredibly intimidated by starting this part of rehearsals. I always fear that my homework won’t support me and I won’t be able to effectively communicate with the actors to give them direction that is stimulating rather than asking them to indicate or demonstrate that they’ve been directed. I found the need to remind myself that we have plenty of time to go back and work moments to polish them, but we got through 6 pages. I had a loose goal of 10 pages, but I was just as satisfied being able to put some of the action on its feet. We worked with making the transitions from location-to-location part of the action rather than an isolated movement between scenes, and I suspect it may take some time.
I had trouble with one of the actors about breaking the habit of cheating out at all times and turning their body so as not to upstage themselves. I think after some time of reinforcing the idea of putting their full physical attention to their inner/outer life and after building some trust in the fact that I won’t let them upstage themselves, it will fix itself!
I think in order to prepare for the next rehearsal, I will prepare some blocking notation, especially going from location-to-location and building those transitions seamlessly as part of the action or a destination.
