5- Rehearsal process.

The first few rehearses were dedicated to reading through and understanding the play, which I found extremely useful and I think others did too, although reading through it was dull if you don't come on for 52 pages. But it was the first step into creating these characters.

We began to put the play on its feet quit early which I think is good because there was a lot of work to do and it's even harder with the language. We would block out the scenes in order and go over them a lot to remember them, we mainly focused on the first half for the majority of rehearsals. Obviously to begin with it was hard because you had to hold a script in your hand and learn your blocking and find your character AND act for the same time. 

The rehearsal process continued onto blocking scenes but those who weren't in them were allowed to sit on the side and get on with work. The first few weeks were okay because I could learn my lines and work on my character profile but I wished I used all the time I had more productively as I did waste the hours I could have used to be doing something  worth while. So admit I was wrong in that sense. 

Obviously after a while listening to the same scenes over and over again can become dull. So when we were asked to sit onstage like in the actual performance it was hard to act engaged. It was really difficult to react to things you've seen a million times before and I feel like I could have put in more effort into that- but I think I made up for it in the shows as I put all my energy into what position I was in and how engaged I was in the piece which was easier almost as it was in a different space.