Blog week 12

week 12) What progress have you made in your final week of rehearsal? In what areas have you made the most improvement? In what areas do you think you still need to make growth before your performance on Monday?

The final week of rehearsals seems almost like the first week of rehearsals to me.  This was the first time I was able to recite the monologue without having to read it, which is good because I kind of lost the script at the moment.  I suppose the areas I have made the most improvement in is understanding the play.  The first time I read it, I had no idea what the point of the story was that my character is telling.  It just didn’t make sense until I read it over a few times.  From being absent for a week, I tried to gather the mood of the monologue on my own, and when rehearsing it yesterday, Vic informed me that he had just watched Thomas, who also has the same monologue as me, perform the monologue with a rather serious, angry tone.  The way I had presented it was with a more humorous tone, like telling some ridiculous story about their father traveling to Mexico to get his teeth pulled out.  Vic said that the performance seemed to work both ways, it was just interesting to see it from different perspectives. I think I still need to get down a lot of movements that the character will have throughout the monologue.  The characters have been drinking, so it’s going to show on them when they talk.  Having insanely strict parents and still only being 20, I honestly have very little experience being drunk.  I’ve been about twice in my life.  So I’m going to have to study other people acting drunk to gather this information, rather than being able to draw from my own life experiences.  But I’m not complaining, it just gives me a reason to binge watch Comedy Central’s Drunk History.