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N2C - 7/12/16

On our final Wednesday rehearsal, we were able to do our script free run through in front of a teacher and  get that feedback that we needed to continue the development of the play before we perform it in a weeks time.  Before our teacher came in to watch the run through, our director spent a long time on the middle section of the script which I'm not a part of and because this section is so big and it has more characters in, it takes longer to perfect lines, ingrain the staging and work out the logistics of each key moment.  When watching this middle scene be directed I focussed mainly on the directions given to the character of The Boy because I think it's really integral for me as an actor to understand the difference between The Boy in the final scene and in the first scene because obviously there's a lot that happens in this middle scene and that definitely affects the way he behaves in the final scene. The Boy gets tantalised and emotionally tortured as well as being quit physically hurt throughout this middle scene and this explains his aggressive violent actions in the final scene.  And although the girl does state that she has talked to the other band members at the cafe she definitely doesn't understand the entirety of what happens and how this has affected him, she acts quite similarly to how she did in the first scene and kind of has a lack of understanding as to what has happened to him.  The boy definitely tries to remain  unconfrontational  throughout this middle scene but he does get severely bullied by the drummer and attempts to hold his ground against him.

 We then did the full run through,  we were able to make it the whole way through and although it wasn't performance ready it was relatively successful and we received notes from our director and our teacher on how to improve it and what to change in our next full day rehearsal on Saturday.  The main thing I took from this feedback was the fact that my character genuinely wants to be with the boy, maybe not in a relationship way but geographically she wants to stay with the boy and she wants to leave with the boy, that's her aim, she  is wanting to continue this conversation as much as possible and that is why the dialogue is so awkward and repetitive.  For example, when I am sat on the floor and we are talking where I say 'it's sad about your grandmother' it's an attempt to make him open up and feel comfortable with her, even though a page later in the script I make another attempt to bring        up the Grandma, as the conversation moves away  from her: 'she was very old your grandmother'. Making an attempt to make him feel reassured, encouraging him to see the fact that it wasn't that tragic she died and that thing would get better. I see this line as something that she intended to sound much nicer than it sounded out loud.
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