Gauche

As we continued working through the script today, the time seemed to pass extremely slow. I don't know if me and my classmates were just groggy, but the performance we were putting on felt bland. Since children's theater may be a new genre for many of the newcomers in the class, they don't exactly realize just yet how exaggerated their actions have to be (even more so because the audience will consist of mostly 1st and 2nd graders). Only today did I realize just how awkwardly many of us moved throughout the rehearsal, unaware of the upstaging in our own actions. As the rehearsal progressed, I felt as though our blocking improved as we attempted to internalize crossing behind an actor when they are speaking. Though seemingly short in its appearance, Heads and Tales, is surprisingly lengthy with all the additional blocking that the script requires. Once again we were unable to completely block the rest of the show, but tomorrow we will be working out the kinks, mostly in blocking. A lot of creativity is required on our part as the script does provide a lot of freedom. I feel that for tomorrow's class, we must expand our idea of children's theater and just go all out on blocking. Perhaps because some of my classmates feel as though it is not yet performance time, they are somewhat apathetic in their performance. Icebreaker, anyone?