Back in the room again
Well…here we are back in the rehearsal room.
After a 2 week break from our last trip to Cornwall we are back rehearsing at Deptford Lounge. I found it useful in the last project when we were working on CELL and I think after today, I have found it very useful again….what am I talking about exactly…well…time or rather a break.
A break away from the rehearsing, the research, the constant creative thinking and doing. The rehearsal today was very much stripping back the 40 minutes we had created and well…I would have said refined but I think re-creating a structure is the actual thing that happened.
Gemma was back in the room today which allowed us to collect her thoughts before adding our own on what we had already created. It was mainly the structure and the order in which events happened, and the transitions which were bulky and too often and too long.
Well the re structure helped with that, it made sure we stayed in one location so that the set didn’t have to keep moving around. It’s hard to splice the story and jump from scene to scene and back and forth in time with a bulky set, so now it’s about being clever with that and making minor adjustments or setting a scene long enough, so that later we can return to the location just by the characters and actions without having to move the entire set. Which in turn will make the set changes and transitions more effective as we will keep placing the set into different positions and creating different locations.
It’s at this moment in rehearsals where people can get offended when their original idea is cut, changed or improved because it no longer fits, but as a group we talked about this and no one was really precious about certain moments so there was scope for change. You often look back at rehearsals and remember that idea which at the time was so perfect but now it just seems like a spontaneous moment of…well rubbish. Ha! We all have them I’m sure.
So here’s to our last week of rehearsals refining, restructuring, creating new material and polishing whilst making sure that the puppetry is to a high quality and the performance values are top class…
Easy……ish!
Jonagold.