Swashbuckling, whippersnapper of an adventure! I am now going to be a Pirate! Well a very comedic, outrageous almost Dame like Pirate! I can not wait.
After a week of trying to learn my lines with no idea what I had let myself in for, I was stressing out! With so many lines being almost the same I was really struggling.
On Tuesday I was given the opportunity to watch one of the shows! Even though it is aimed at children- I was in stitches. The characters were so dynamic and energetic and everyone was having such a great time! I couldn't wait to be apart of it. The Pirate life is better than they make out, especially a TIE tour adventure with Pirates!
Then it was my turn!
My turn to transform into a Pirate.
I was so nervous as I was the only 'NEWBIE' and everyone else knew exactly what they were doing. I jumped into character and tried to impersonate what I had seen before. However, I quickly realised that I needed to develop my own version of the character. I made 'Mrs Hawkins' Welsh! It made it more of a dynamic character and more individual to me. I was so proud of myself when I managed to make the cast laugh with my entrance dance!
Half way through my first rehearsal, a new guy came in who also had their first rehearsal today! Although he hadn't had his script before had. Finally I didn't feel like the odd one out any more and I rose to the challenge to help him out in the scenes. This really helped me as the pressure was off me to get it right and I slipped into character and was trying new things each time we ran the scenes! It was also really good practice to rehearsal with someone else as they play different intentions.
At the end of the day the cast were pleased with my progress and I was so glad that another guy came in and took the pressure off me! Even though I did feel sorry for him. I do need another rehearsal but at least I was welcomed into the group and we all had a fantastic evening gathering to get to know each other! Can't wait to start the tour!!
Friday 30 September 2011
Monday 26 September 2011
Waiting for the Call On - Show Time
I was a little but nervous I have to admit, especially in such a intimate space and this did effect my first performance. I ended up tripping myself up on my entrance and this meant there was no connection between us as characters through out the entire scene. However, practice does make perfect and it was probably first night nervous, which turned into second night blues.... I am only joking! The performances were a bit flat but we could work on that.
I had a few notes :
try not to shout
show the realisation of you finding out what Sam is hiding
don't call for Sam like a dog
find more of a connection between you both
These are challenging notes but achievable if you put the effort in! That is just what we did! Even though on the final performance in our first venue we mucked up our lines and I ended up saying this huge monologue to try and get to a part in the play where we could get back to the script with the audience still following the story.
By the time we were at our final venue we hit our peak and created such a connection between us. I learnt not to bark like a dog and to let the emotion speak with me. This made it a lot easier to understand each other thus creating a realistic discovery of what Sam was hiding.
It was an amazing experience and I have learnt so much and I hope that this has strengthened my as an actor.
I had a few notes :
try not to shout
show the realisation of you finding out what Sam is hiding
don't call for Sam like a dog
find more of a connection between you both
These are challenging notes but achievable if you put the effort in! That is just what we did! Even though on the final performance in our first venue we mucked up our lines and I ended up saying this huge monologue to try and get to a part in the play where we could get back to the script with the audience still following the story.
By the time we were at our final venue we hit our peak and created such a connection between us. I learnt not to bark like a dog and to let the emotion speak with me. This made it a lot easier to understand each other thus creating a realistic discovery of what Sam was hiding.
It was an amazing experience and I have learnt so much and I hope that this has strengthened my as an actor.
Rehearsals
Waiting for the Call On
I had three days to rehease and learn my lines before we went up for our first performance in the White Bear Theatre. It was going to be a challenge. Waiting for the Call On is set in 1889 in Wapping docks and written by Keith Wallis, and I was proud to be apart of it. I had to adopt the character of Lizzy who was in a long relationship with Sam who worked at the docks. However, it wasn't as hunky dory as that. Sam is a bear knuckle boxer and comes to close to death too many times but he feels that he must do it to get money as he can not seem to get work at the docks. 100 men waiting each morning for 2 jobs! When Lizzy finds out, there is an up raw.
We as characters sat down and discussed our history as a couple and how we met, creating a whole new life for each of us. The hardest part of this when we had to incorporate our findings into our characters. It was a challenge but after a couple of improvisations of our first meeting/date/fight we found a connection.
Lizzy being a character from 1889 meant that she had different posture and mannerisms from a character these days, she lived in the slums giving a clear idea of how she would be and what kind of person she might have been. What also helped was the trip to the Docklands Museum where I found a variety of information on the history. I found it difficult to get the changes of emotion in the scene and needed to find something that created the emotion change for me personally so that the character would feel it too.
All this will be hopefully work out in time for the opening night, I just need to learn my lines!!
I had three days to rehease and learn my lines before we went up for our first performance in the White Bear Theatre. It was going to be a challenge. Waiting for the Call On is set in 1889 in Wapping docks and written by Keith Wallis, and I was proud to be apart of it. I had to adopt the character of Lizzy who was in a long relationship with Sam who worked at the docks. However, it wasn't as hunky dory as that. Sam is a bear knuckle boxer and comes to close to death too many times but he feels that he must do it to get money as he can not seem to get work at the docks. 100 men waiting each morning for 2 jobs! When Lizzy finds out, there is an up raw.
We as characters sat down and discussed our history as a couple and how we met, creating a whole new life for each of us. The hardest part of this when we had to incorporate our findings into our characters. It was a challenge but after a couple of improvisations of our first meeting/date/fight we found a connection.
Lizzy being a character from 1889 meant that she had different posture and mannerisms from a character these days, she lived in the slums giving a clear idea of how she would be and what kind of person she might have been. What also helped was the trip to the Docklands Museum where I found a variety of information on the history. I found it difficult to get the changes of emotion in the scene and needed to find something that created the emotion change for me personally so that the character would feel it too.
All this will be hopefully work out in time for the opening night, I just need to learn my lines!!
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