So to start of we meet MX E on Tuesday April 24th in the Theatre class room. The other day Joel taught us how important the diagonals were by play the "Where were...At home" but only by walking on the diagonals. I then played this with my cast giving Paige the direction to search for Charlie (the dog) and Colby to get her attention but with out speaking. Both were very invested into the game and it continued for a while before I cut it off. Looking back I think I should have kept the game going longer in order to give Colby more direction. After a while he kept repeating the same movement and next time I would like to see what he does when he changed up his tactics. Colby seems fairly uncomfortable without his words so it might be good to keep him silent and see how he still changes his tactics.
From there we moved on to have Paige saying Charlie' and Colby saying 'Lizzy'. This expanded their decision exponentially. Both are very comfortable with language so I think the next thing we need to do is work with silence.
Afterwards we did run through of the beginning of the scene working with the diagonals as we did in the game we played at the begenning. I think I will need to play with Paige some more on the idea of searching. While it is very good I also want to her to have some more stops so she can connect with Colby. We ran through the scene a couple more times but I stopped them before they got to the second page, just to give them more notes. Joel said to me later that it was 'always better to go longer then to go to short'. I think I will apply this to my next rehearsal and let them run for longer next time. I think this will improve my actors comfortably with the text and also allow them to make more choices.
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