Today I first had Steve and Mariah
show me the monologues that I had them write for the other character. They were
supposed to learnt hem twice- once as their character and once as the other.
There seemed to be some confusion as to the purpose of this, so we discussed
that- how, as an actor, you are supposed to know who your character is as a
person and, therefore, would know and how he/she would react to certain
situations (even if they are not in the script).
We
went through the entire script and blocked it all. I worried less about the
acting itself as I did about what they were doing and where they were going.
The table will be the focal point of the entire piece- it’s almost as if they
are playing the flying disc game while they are acting. They balance each other
out on opposite sides of the table. So, we played a sort of game while they did
the play. I would be walking around, and their job was to make sure that I
could see as much of both of them as possible while still looking natural.
Since we have ¾ staging, they need to play around to everyone. Also, whenever I
told them ‘turn’, they would have to walk around 90 degrees then say their line
on that next diagonal. Whenever I said ‘turn while walking’ they’d have to make
that 90 degree transition while saying their next line, but still stopping at
that diagonal.
I
told them to work on memorization, and they reluctantly agreed (it’s not fun, I
know). We also chatted a bit about costumes, but not anything major.
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