Final Major Project Love and Information Log Book 2

The last few weeks on working on final major project were great. You can see how everyone is working hard and doing they best. This week we improved a lot on analysing our characters and trying to run over the whole play.

After a week of absence I was little bit confused about the Fan scene as everyone are in it and Isabella gave a short notes of what to do and we performed in front of the other half of the class. Each of us were paired in two with those who playing in blue room. I was in pair with Shaday.

In her notes she mentioned I would need to improve on:

• Energy levels because it has been little bit low so far.
• characterisation just be clearer about my playing characters because now its just line reading 
• make sure to stay in character even though I dont have any lines. For example, when other people are in the scene and I`m just sitting on a chair in the background make sure my legs are down and I`m focused. 
• Be more faster with my lines. I believe that will come when I learn my lines and will be off bok by the next week. 
• projection. I have setted a target to do work on OO - OH - OR every morning. 

In Rob`s class we did a quick warm up before we kicked on rehearsing. In the afternoon we split in two groups: Blue Room and Love and Information. Blue Room went rehearsing first, we followed after. Mainly we focused on the last acts: 5, 6, 7 and scenes which are in it, including the last one. I appreciate how everyone is throwing ideas and giving it a try. For the last scene, we thought of making like a TV show with two presenters: Katie and Ryan. There will be two groups, each competing whose answer the question first. It`s more like a smart question game "Who`s going to win a million?". As the last question comes up everyone shouts out at the same time, Ryan and Katie hugs and everyone freezes, black out.

Sharon helped us to transform from one character to another very quickly which is very helpful as in love and information we have multiple characters. For instance, I have 5 different characters. Moreover, all the time we are on stage so there is no time to relax. The focus has to be kept all the time because even a tiny mistake can make a huge difference.

At first we were walking around in circles, changing direction. Then, Sharon gave us a task to draw a circle around ourselves, starting from the ground and slowly going up. Once, we are back in our normal position, back straight, we have to become the character from the play. I have chosen a school girl from the Lab scene, which is very curious about everything. When Sharon raised her hands up the character had to be exaggerated up to maximum, when she slowly lowered her hands the character is very close to neutral position but the energy has to be kept the same.

Following task, required to get into pairs and interview each other. But interview a character, asking questions such as, who are you, what is your favourite colour, do you have any siblings, where do you live, etc. Personally, that helped to create the actual life for my character and believe that she truly exists which was hard to understand beforehand.

The setting is quite an usual as well as simple. It is very close to Brechtian theatre style as we don`t use much of furniture neither decorations. Just chair, setted like they are mirroring each other. It is really important to mark on the script where and when we change seating just to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

On Thursday morning in Sharon`s class it was only me, Jerome, Isabella and Ria. The theatre was free of use so we used the opportunity to run over the scenes in a theatre. Mostly, we worked on the scenes in which at least one of us are. However, working in a theatre was very useful, just to get used to bigger space than we used to rehearse in small drama studio which I believe affects on our projection as we tend to speak quieter.

As we had more time, I had a chance to annotate my scripts. I marked and crossed all the scenes we are in and sticked a paper tape with a name of the scene and number. It took a while but it is very helpful in rehearsal, especially in s play like Love and Information when it is so easy to get lost.

In the afternoon, was the first time we ran over the whole play twice. Tired and exhausted, we felt we done really great this week and worked very hard. Of course, it worked well because all the group members were in so we did not need to read in for anyone. Hopefully, for the next week we can be off book and ran over the play as many times as possible.