Director's Challenge - Part 21, Third Rehearsal

Plans for this rehearsal were once again abandoned because Evie (Leah) fell ill on the day of the rehearsal. We had originally planned to rehearse both Scene 3 Parts 1 and 2 and Leah's second monologue in Scene 4 but instead, we had to stick with only the Scene 3 parts. This means that we're even further behind than we had planned - originally by this point we would have blocked the whole play and would be making amendments, instead, we still have Scene 3 Part 4 and some of Part 3 to block as well as Scene 4. This can easily be achieved within a week if I am able to rehearse on a separate day with Evie.

Even so, we managed to get through Scene 3 Parts 1 and 2 in an hour as Megan had to leave at 5:30. It's simply a rough blocking and is liable to change especially as I feel like the characters are all crowded on one side of the stage in Part 2. As Ollie didn't have to leave as soon, we practised Mark's monologue in Scene 3 Part 3 which we hadn't managed to do in our Jan and Mark rehearsal in the first week of N2C.  It should be noted that Imogen Blanchard who was going to be playing Cathy may not be participating in Director's Challenge, so for all intents and purposes due to Imogen (director) playing in The Pillowman with the Y12 BTECs, I will be playing Cathy. The videos below show the first attempts at blocking with the cast.

Scene 3, Part 1

Scene 3, Part 2

Mark's monologue, my attempt and Ollie's attempt:

Analysis of all three scenes:

Our plan for the next few weeks regarding rehearsals is as follows:

Half Term - learn lines at home for the scenes we have blocked; if possible learn all lines for future scenes.
27th February - block Scene 3 Parts 3 and 4; block Scene 4 with Evie another day this week, potentially on Thursday or Friday; it should be noted that on this week there are Y13 mock exams.
6th March - full run through and remind people of blocking; pause and tweak; remind about the line learning deadline.
13th March - line learning deadline; pause and tweak; ask them to think about costume and bring it in the week after; we must think properly about lighting and tech.
20th March - full dress runs; pause and tweak.
Potential Saturday rehearsal - full run through with tech; all day rehearsal with run-throughs and tweaks and the like.
27th March - performance week!