Evaluation of a rehearsal

This rehearsal I felt like I was pushing myself to get into my role even more so. We were rehearsing the scenes after my character kills her daughter. This meant the emotional state of my character changes and develops. I was really getting into how she must feel and her logic behind her actions with me and Dennis. I felt like we were communicating a relationship across which we haven't done in previous scenes.

Overall it wasn't as successful as our previous rehearsal. The energy between scenes wasn't working, this is partly to do with the box. The energy betweens scenes is dropping, because of people not working around the fact that we don't have the box. It is a challenge and it is worrying not having the box. It means there is an element of the play which is outside our control. However, we need to ignore it for now and focus on building the pressure within scenes and raising the stakes.

There are still some scenes where is feels like people do not know the significance and true meaning of what they are saying. This is clear in some of the government scenes.  When discussing factually based content it is even more important to know what your saying and to 'see what you say'. If you can't fully visualise it for yourself then you can't expect the audience to.

I need to work on some scenes between me and Dennis. It is a really difficult issue we are dealing with and I don't think any of us have fully realised how twisted the home life situation had to be in order for my character to commit such an awful crime. I think we need to focus on the situation more and realise the severity of it, because the stakes aren't high enough for it to be believable. I don't feel like you can tell how much Sarah has to lose and how much Dennis loses. This is something we can research and learn about over the Christmas break. I hope when we all come back we will have realised given circumstances more.