Notes from an Actors (continued)September 28th 2007 |
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From Adam Luckey:
"September 28
Taking it apart and putting it back together. Exploring and expanding emotional context. Establish moods, tone, and intention through understanding the stakes of the scene, the act, and the play.
Act one, scene one: The Battlements/Security Station. Bernardo (Tim Hull), Marcellus (Todd Culley), and Horatio (Shayne Brakefield). I watched as they ran this scene and observed their process. It is amazing to watch an individual actor's process and watch it invent, change, and evolve. This was a prime example of watching the process of three different actors, taking three different approaches to their process, and meeting at the same crossroads. It was a joy to watch. Rick threw out a few stage directions and posed a few questions to the actors to help get them into a frame of mind for the top of the show. Fear. Anxiety. Claustrophobia. Dread. "Shake the ground with your fear," he said. And after a few attempts, they really started to cook with gas. They started to make choices. BOLD choices which really started to affect their characters and their relationships with each other and the world that they inhabit. They began to relish the words they were speaking and the mood they were trying to establish and took charge of the scene.
The following is notes, thoughts, reminders, etc. that I have found myself writing in my journal:
The State of Denmark: Is it rotten to anyone else but Hamlet?
Who is involved?
Can you trust what anybody says?
Nothing is in balance, but everyone is attempting to give the impression that it is.
Relationship/connection of Hamlet- Fortinbras- Laertes
I will be missing rehearsals this evening (due to a performance I have to give at 8 in Frankfort) so I have a few days to process, learn more lines (OFF BOOK DATE IS OCTOBER 4th), and continue to think it through"
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