First Rehearsal - The Process

Our first rehearsal was Monday 9th May. We started the session with handing out the scripts for everyone to read to get an idea of how this theatre piece will go.
We then started the session with a warm up. This warm up consisted of, breathing exercises and stretching, this took about 10 minutes.
It is very important to warm at the beginning of each rehearsal to allow the actors to focus on the task ahead.
After the stretching and breathing, we did an eye contact exercise.
The actors had to use the space in the room to walk around whilste always keeping in eye contact with someone, the idea of this exercise was to build an energy.
This lasted for 10 minutes.
The next warm up was a physical movement exercise, the actors had to listen to the music that was being played and allow themselves to feel free and move with the music, naturally going with what their bodies wanted to do. It's more of an instinctual exercise and allows the actor to let go and feel free, again to build a bright positive energy.
The actors also had to look at each other and try and connect with one another through dance.
This lasted 30 minutes. It did take Lucy a while to loosen up and let go of her inhibitions, however everyone in the room encouraged her to be part of the energy and eventually she was.
After this warm up the group was ready to start working on the 3 scenes.
Through this rehearsal we managed to block each scene, we also had a go at some movement and dance, which seemed to work well.
The next rehearsal will focus more on specific dance moves, our task as Directors is to look up some tribal dance moves and throw them in at certain points of the ensemble dance, scene 2.