Two Guns Rehearsal 4/23

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.