Well I did it. I pulled a Sunday rehearsal. I am lucky to have Paige and Colby in my cast. They had no hesitation about coming in on their day off to reherse. We had a hour and half session in connate gallery and made a lot of head way.
Both actors worked a lot with the script and are much more solid on their lines now.
To start we did work with projecting. I made them stand outside the arts library door while I stood inside it with the door shut. If I couldn't hear their lines I made them say it louder. We did almost a full through of the script like that. I thought it was very helpful because it helped Colby realize how loud he could be even during the quiet scene. It also helped the actors in their line memorization.
Afterwards we went into Connat gallery and started doing full run throughs. Both actors were much more comfortable with their lines and they now have them down pat. We did a little work remembering the diagonals but they were much better mainly due to the memorizing of lines.
I still believe that Colby needs to work on getting louder. Especially during the cold hands warm heart scene. He often times believes that it doesn't sound realistic. I will push him more on this next time to believe that projecting is much different than yelling.
Afterwards we moved into re-blocking the second half. I took Joel's advice and tried blocking the second half with more movment. Both actors get up earlier now. I like the idea of this because both actors keep better with the polar magnet staging.
It took a while for both actors to get used to the staging but it looks much better now. They both move beautifully on the diagonals. However they both are still speaking too quietly. Though I worked with them at length on this it was hard to tell them this in Connate because their voices echo. I will work on this next time in the theatre to show them how easily their voices get absorbed in the space.
Afterwards we did a couple run throughs just to go over any hicups. I am very excited for next sunday to see what tech will look like.
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