Medea #9 – Thursday 09/03
The Day Before The BIG Performance....Ahhh... calm.
Well this day is finally here. We got right down to buissness. We decided to split off into the belt dance group and the court room group and work on our seperate sections, polishing them before a technical blocking then a full run through. While we were all off doing that Laura, Mary Kate, Sam and Gethin got to work on the lighting and the sound. This part of the session seemed to be productive in terms of running through important lines and the running order in terms of lighting and setting them up on the catwalk.
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after the lunch break...
We decided to do a complete run through of the piece whilst Laura sat out to watch the flow and most importantly to do the sound and lighting. Through out the run through we discovered there were a few more floors than we had originally predicted:
- work around the painting – when to paint the child out??
- entrances and exits in majority of places
- removing the ribbons off Frankie before the 'Par de Dour'.
However, we overcame these, and the run through was beneficial becasue we were able to redeem these floors.
Hugh also helped us with a few polishing aspects:
- Making the transitions part of the piece not just movements from A to B. An example of this is from the 'Par de Dour' into the courtroom scene. The music has a firm beat and Hugh suggested to walk with purposfull strides to the beat, which also reflects the sincerity and formalaity of the courtroom scene.
- Expressions on peoples faces when positioned in the collumns. An example of this is during the belt dance and 'Par de Dour' Hugh told us to feel the oppression that the male is forcing onto the female, then translate that feeling into our facial expressions.
- For Helen and I in the courtroom scene to portray physically the status of our characters, so the audience can see that we are Gods. Therefore we both took up more naturalistic positions of Greek God statues. The rest of the group agreed this worked well.
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For some reason, not intirely sure why. The Dada group with the belt scene were having troubles again. So after the session the went outside to reherse agin and i'm not sure if Hugh helped them at that point or yesterday, but hopefully they will be able to sort it out and get it how they want it to be, as it was looking really good. The boys also went out side (it was a lovely day) to reherse their movement fore the alternative ending scene. And whilst the other group were setting up there set around me I carried on with the painting and (hurray!!!) I know have one finished Klimt!!!!! So I only needed to stay an extra 3 hours!!!!
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next session...
In the morning do as many run throughs as we possibly can. Oh and the group decided to use Annisa ideas of face paints as we couldn't get hold of masks. She came to the session with her face made up painted white and with red and black simple patterns to high light the eyes. So we'll be making ourselves up tomorrow. However, some of us (including myself) cannot or did not want to wear full white so we have decided just to high light the eyes instead, which will work just aswell in making the whole cast neutral tribal.
Last thing… just get a good nights sleep, and lots of us need to pack!!!!!!