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Week three: constructing the action

Week three: constructing the action

Did everyone have a great spring break? I know I did. Spring break ate away more days until opening night, but it also opened up opportunities for me to study my lines. I tried making note cards (with my lines on them) for the first time, which was a tremendous help. They strengthened my memorization for most of my lines. Act one is all done for me.

This week was the first week we started staging our scenes. On Monday, March 19 the Athenian court met in the theater to stage the first scene of the show. Some of the Athenian characters have a lot of words to speak in one sitting.

“My character (Demetrius) is quiet most of the time,” senior Drew Smith said. “But then I might just speak up and preach a ton of lines. It’s a bit overwhelming.”

Tuesday, March 20, the “bad actors” rehearsed the bar scene. Copeland told everyone to act as if they were at a pub in ancient Greece. “The stand-ins” played their parts and acted as if they were really in a pub. Arm wrestling took place, betting money on the winners. Freshman Jesse Laning has a stand in part as a pub goer who loses an arm wrestling match against Flute, played by sophomore Hope Riedel.

For the rest of the week various groups will meet and learn the blocking for their scenes and next week people should have Act one memorized. Monday is my next rehearsal, there we will run through all of act one.

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