This week we focused a lot on the blocking of act 2. For act two my character is only in a few scenes near the beginning and end. Most of these were ensemble numbers so allowed me to explore more of my characters relationships within the groups.
A big scene I'm involved with was the torture scene near the beginning of act 2, within this scene my character Meat and some other captured bohemians are tied up by Khashoggi into an electrocution mechanism which he uses against them when they don't answer his questions or insults him.
This was a fun one to work on as a group as we had to work out how to be in sync with one another when being electrocuted, this took a while to work out because we had to sing the flash before screaming without a cue we had to develop our own technique. However in this rehearsal we were doing it with off cast members and it may not be them in the actual performance therefore will have to create a technique that is easy to teach on to the year twelves, so can do with ease and won't waste time. As well as this we had to make it believable so we played around with a few types of scream and people had different ideas on how it would sound as well as our director so we tried out the different suggestions until we found one that we all liked, this took patience and focus but we achieved it in the end. We then tried it in both casts so they could get used to it.
In this session I found it challenging to focus near the end, due to repetition of our activity, as a group we all started to lose our focus so I think in future we need to maybe plan to do it in a smaller session so we don't take up too much of the whole groups time, so we use our class time efficiently as an ensemble.
Another scene in which I was more involved was the bar scene with Pop in the Seven seas of rye. In this we were able to work with the year twelves, which really allowed us to develop as an ensemble working with new people and creating the right atmospheres within scenes.
In this scene my character had been brain drained of all knowledge of who she is and what she believes in so is quite dreary and zoned out with the rest of the members of the bar. This particular scene was a very long scene, therefore we as a group had to have a lot of patience going through it and working out what was effective and what wasn't for those with lines and our reactions. However doing it over a few times allowed us to really get the gist of the scene as a group and our parts within it so we could really get our characterisation right this took a lot of focus from us all.
As a group we worked on the song bohemian rhapsody with the movements, we had done this before with just our class and done a rough cut of the number. So this time we had to incorporate the year twelves this took communication from us year 13s and 14s as we had already spent a lot of time on it so again had to be patient, listen to any of their queries and get it settled.
The beginning section wasn't too bad as we are split into small groups, so we just added 12s into each group and then could teach them our parts individually, for this i took a leadership within my group so they didn't get confused, as my groups section was the first part of the ensemble part, timing was easy to teach so just had to go over our verse, my group were good listeners so it went well and didn't take much time. I think my peer support here worked well as otherwise they may have been confused and it could have taken up a lot of time so helped us to work successfully.
Adding movement to the bigger sections became difficult as their was so many of us and the movement couldn't be too distracting compared to the words as well as the galileo/scaramouche of the song. This could have been improved if we had planned more in advance or split off into different groups.
As a whole I need to develop my focus when I start to get tired of lose concentration even if others are displaying a lack of focus to not join in and try to help them regain focus as well, this will help us get certain jobs done faster and work more efficiently as a group.
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