First rehearsal we began the arduous yet greatly
rewarding experience of putting on a Berkshire School theater production. We
read through the whole and untouched script. Of course, we did this while
eating cake because… because cake is pretty awesome. The following couple of
rehearsal were spent doing some improv games and learning blocking shorthand.
This is just symbols/abbreviations we write into the script that describe the
actions (or blocking) an actor does in the scene.
Once the
script was read and the cake was eaten, we could begin to roughly block the
show. Starting with the first full week of rehearsals, we went through the
first few scenes in chronological order. The main purpose of these early
blocking rehearsals was just to discuss and discover the purpose of each scene
and what direction we wanted to take.
Each
blocking rehearsal has started with a mini read-through of the scene at hand.
We stop often: ask questions, mostly answer them- which generally just results
with more questions- and in the process generate a plethora of ideas. It will
be a long process before a few of these ideas will be realized, but we are
super excited to get things in motion.
Float On
For Now,
Riley And
Greer
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