Third Week of Rehearsals

This was the first week I had the chance to work with Dawn and Brenton on stage together. I am happy to say that they have excellent chemistry and aren't nearly as distracting. Monday was mostly just Brenton, Dawn and Sebastian and I. I am very confident that the three of them are going to play their parts very well.

My biggest concern runs with the fact that I'm having trouble getting the rest of my actors to commit. While both Josh and Dylan have come to a few rehearsals, both Evans and Alexander have no attended a rehearsal at all. I'm worried they will not be prepared when it comes to performance day.

During lunch and after school this week I worked with Brenton, Sebastian and Dawn on developing their characters using the Stanislavski method acting techniques. They developed their characters by relating them to an animal and then portraying the animal techniques in human form. I think the actors weren't really sure how to do this; Dawn seemed to be the most confident in this practice. Had I had the chance, I would have looked back on Stanislavski more and gone into further explanation of the technique.