Sunday, January 8, 2017

January 8


January 8, 2017
Everyone
learn your lines so that we can run the show entirely 
People noise in the bar.
Everyone loses their accents when they grow angry – watch this.
Say h’s on some words so the audience can understand what you are saying.
Cheat out
Be louder
Edwin
Begin smelling the shed as you come in. Work on fainting.
Keep kissing her hand until Lady H says, stop…..
Plant your feet. This was your first day as the character so it was tough.
Unpardonable - diction
maybe don could stalk Brooke after the meeting. Follows her, comes from behind pylon when she gets close
Don’t smell the hair. Do what you would do.  Salivate over her in the lantern scene. Make a point of seeing her.
 Start putting the show together BEFORE Lady H tells the girls about the show.
Walk in character any time you enter or exit.
Work on being more threatening in stalking scene – we will work on that.
Swirl glass – see Collin
Ellen and Kate
Work on new lines.
Len
Be goofier in love with Maggie. Wipe your brow, lift your glass, wink and smile and say what a woman
Maids/men
Move gutting shed back during Eady/Maggie scene.
Move things quietly.
Arthur
Louder and slow down.
In “teaching a lesson scene,” My dear- CHUCKLE- there is plainly something….. (TOY with her)
Be firm when you have your arms around Priscilla. Use a deeper voice.
Jim
You will be carrying in a carcass, so grunt as you enter. Laugh louder. Can only hear Kate
Diction – people like us don’t get shops
Emily
Louder and slower
Gut girls
People noises as you work – groan, sigh, be cold, etc.
More people noises in sewing scene. Can’t thread a needle, poke yourself with needle, take something apart.
Slow down on line about hankies, Polly. 
New rule – deep sighs, react,
Annie
Look around before you say you are going to be sick.
Didn’t hear your madam line in club scene
Diction- Let’s go to that club….
Diction – and I got friends
Maggie
I had trouble understanding Brooke when speaking to lady h in the meat
say the "can't have everything you want in life" as a warning
slow down and use diction talking to Lady H – most of us have to go home….
Diction – bleedin choice
Diction- we’ll do that allright.
Diction – time we done something about him.
Diction- to learn how to become decent
Man 1
Entering as Man 1, cross from DSR to DSL. As man 1, you Sounded like Harry
Harry
Be creepy when you listen.
Ellen
say your line about finding Annie a new place to live while saying goodbye. You should be leaving as you say this 
Find a bag you can use to put pamphlets in.  Keep them handy
Well BEAT you in that house?
It’ll be about that club she set up – diction
Diction- I’m sure a couple of months…
Jim, Kate
still too staged when Reese and Payton enter
Kate
be trashier as a character until you change your mind in the instruction of a maid.
Emotion talking about your mom. The death is still fresh.
Line – It gets all bloody
Line – stood outside the gate on payday
Priscilla
be loud even though you are stuttering
Frippery line was too slow.  You are “connecting” here with Lady H, so be a little amused that shows you are more comfortable with her.
LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Work on line about running into a door. It’s not clear because of the stuttering. 
Women
start the lady Helena meeting immediately after Maky and Ashlynn quit speaking
Don’t laugh about women being thirty – say it matter of fact.
Start singing as soon as the Eady/Maggie scene is over.
Clap after the lantern show.
 
Polly
make had a vision funny
Scaremongering – work on line
Oh blimey – missed what am I going to do.
Annie & Kate
Clean a chair off for Lady H when she enters.
React more when Lady H enters.  FAWN over her.
Lady H
Hang up petticoats in dressing rooms and find a purse and hanky.  Remind me tomorrow.
Look at line – pleased to meet you.  What does.
None at all?  You are surprised – a little louder & make it more of a question, scene 12
Diction – the young women in the gutting sheds….
That’s enough. Get up….hands on hips.
Ask to see page 16
Eady
Slower on folding clothes.
Slow down on lines. Be louder. Watch diction. Work with MS. Kuehler or Kadyn or Ashlynn
Maggie and Eady
Maggie, try to hug your mom so she can smell the ale. Try to touch her at other times.


To do
Work on scene 11 transition.
Write scenes down.
Purse Helena
Bloomers
sewing
Beer
Leg
Meat
Books.
Tablecloth
Dustpan etc.



5 comments:

  1. i'm still working on figuring out my character and adding unique things to her. I'm trying to be funny but i'm not a funny person so it's hard!!!! so if anyone has any suggestions on how to add funny stuff let me know!! and can we please work on my scene with arthur?? i was not feeling it last night

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  2. I am going to be motherly and make the audience feel sorry for me. I don't really know how to work my transitions. I will try to make my diction decent

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  3. the sheets passed out yesterday really helped me get a since of my character! now I realize that I need to be more bossy and trashy, then transition into a "young lady." I also like the idea of adding those lines with ellen and kate, as well as jim and kate! I think it will really deepen my character! I know that the gut girls still seem the same but we really are trying hard to figure our characters out and become individuals in a group, instead of a group of girls who are all the same!:)

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  4. Working on the music and transitions has really helped me to understand the feel the mood and setting in the play. And vice versa, I suppose!

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  5. The singing in the transitions worked a lot better and made some scenes less awkward. We can work on making sure that if one person hums that every one does and so that the audience can hear them

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