I'm sure everyone's done with class, so no one will look at this, but
I thought I'd post some thoughts about the final scenes.
As the first scene to go, Joe and I, I am sure, showed that we were a
little nervous. We'd been practicing lines all before the show, but I
still messed up and skipped a little chunk of text. Hopefully we
recovered from it well. Also, I wish we'd have had a little more depth
of space, maybe played with importance by going up and down stage of
eachother.
For Romero and Jenna, I liked your scene. It was awesome that you kept
up and got through the entire scene. In class, I have to admit, I
couldn't quite focus during the cold read. I know there were a LOT of
lines, and there were a lot of places where going slow was a good
choice to show emphasis on a certain line. I wish that during the more
back-and-forth lines you guys would have almost stepped on eachother's
lines. It would have made the scene go a little bit quicker, and the
audience would perk up, then pay attention to the long monologues,
then perk up, etc.
For Matt: Congratulations. Although I'm sure everyone who's never read
or seen the play didn't understand at all why you were jumping back
and forth, you got the point across. It was very much like an old,
lonely man who's gone crazy and the two halves of himself are talking
to eachother. The mask was a bit weird, though. While it was on the
ground, it was distracting because the black side of the mask was
pointing to the god side, and the white side of the mask was on the
devil side. When you picked it up, it made a little more sense, but it
was still weird. And the thing with the door, I wish you'd have just
popped your head around the side of the door corresponding to whoever
was speaking instead of going all the way around the door. But
overall, you did something very hard, and it mostly worked. :D
For Sam and Dorothy: Amazing! You might have heard from all the
laughs, but I really enjoyed it! Sam, you acting out the hunt scene
really, really made a difference. Whoever made that note it class,
kodos. Dorothy, you took your very good accent back a step and down a
pitch, and it was an awesome motherly sound. It nicely contrasted with
Sam's voice. The stageplay was better. There was more depth, and more
use of the 9 squares evident.
For Maggie and Frank: In this last scene, I think we should have gone
off book a little earlier. It would have more aptly prepared us for
the scene. With the lines down pat, we would have been able to do a
little more blocking, and maybe a little more work with the 9
squares. I'm sorry, again, for missing the last rehearsal.
Those are my thoughts. Have a good summer everyone!