I wasn’t
feeling well, so I had to take it easy at rehearsal. We started off by showing each other more prepared
moments. Everyone had a personal
moment that was inspired by a new questionnaire that Andy had given us. Sam and I had an extra moment inspired
by the characters we were cast to play.
My character moment was a story about a student who never wanted to do
any work and then one day performed a wonderful poem in front of a bunch of
people. The moment prompted a
short discussion about the dramatic centers of moments – what do we want to
dramatize in each moment? Those
are hard questions to answer, but they are necessary to make the play
entertaining and meaningful. A few
days ago Andy made preliminary casting decisions so that we could become
familiar with the main characters we would be playing. In between showing moments we did an
improv activity called “Morning Announcements.” We did a few rounds where we were students who were giving an
announcement at a school-wide assembly.
One round we talked about an important event we were planning, another
round we introduced ourselves.
Andy said that we would begin each rehearsal with a set of these morning
announcements.
Towards the
end of the night we did more Viewpoints with the classroom chair set up. Brooke put out some blazers and we
changed back and forth between students and newspaper reporters. A classroom is quite similar to a
newsroom. It was really fun to
make these quick character changes with just a costume piece and our
bodies. I could feel the energy of
the room change each time we switched characters. I can imagine it being fun to watch.
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