A View from The Bridge: Performance 12/2/2014

Today we had our performance and technical run.

Technical Run
We done this from 8:55-9:55 and then 11:15-12:00. In the first hour we done the technical run, we ran half of our scenes with the lights and sound and also decided that we should run our scenes into each other instead of having blackouts between each. This showed that we were still the same characters and were natural in a house. Not stopping all the time and suddenly being in a different place. After half of our scenes were done we decided to top and tail each scene. We took the first lines and last lines of each scene and went to our opening then closing positions of the scenes. This gave the technical people an idea of when and when not to give black outs and also play the music whilst we changed the set or actors.

A View from The Bridge: Final rehearsal 11/2/2014

Today we had a final rehearsal and then our final dress rehearsal. We also hot seated each character apart from Eddie because he wasn't in until later.

The hot seating was when each character sat down in a seat and was asked questions about their character and what was happening. When we done this we knew the story well but hadn't looked into a back story for each character. Although people came up with a backstory on the spot, we still had not researched into this. I was asked questions about finding out when Rodolpho could sing and also about Eddie. Although I am not very good at being put on the spot, I feel like I did stay in character and came up with the things Catherine would say.

What held us back with not having Eddie was that we did have to act to ourselves and show reactions to no one without this character being there. So I had done all of my scenes without Eddie, just someone reading in for him, he did then turn up after my scenes so I didn't end up with much of a rehearsal with him.
Whilst everyone else was doing their scenes I was always going through my script, rubbing out and re-doing where each extract started and ended, also stage directions in certain scenes which I helped to direct. I also went to look for a coat for Eddie but could not find one within the costume cupboard.
Throughout this rehearsal we came across props that were needed such as extra coffee cups and a cigar which we still did not have.

In the dress rehearsal not everyone had a costume. I did not have a costume to play the immigration officer because I didn't know what we were wearing and the part was short notice for me.
Other than that the dress rehearsal went much better than the final rehearsal because everyone was up with their lines within an hour or two from the final rehearsal.

A View from The Bridge: Week February 3rd - 7th

All week I haven't really been needed in each rehearsal. We ran scenes 7 up until the end because these were the scenes which needed the most work and the lines were not learnt very well. I prompted the actors on stage when they forgot their lines which was basically all of the time.

We did also clean the scenes and re set them so that they were clear and looked well rehearsed, also so that the actors knew where they were going on the stage.

I did stay behind after school on Monday to talk about props and choose the costumes. We decided that we needed:
- A phonograph
- Some Records
- A cigarette
- Lighter
- Newspaper
- Old newspaper
- Round table
- Eddies seat
- A sofa
- 5 wooden chairs
- Coat rack
- Door frame
- Christmas decorations
- Coffee cups
- Tray to carry the coffee cups
- Jackets for the coat rack

The costumes we need are:
- Pink jumper for Catherine 1
- Black skirt for Catherine 1
- Heels for Catherine 1
- Shirt for Eddie, Marco, Rodolpho
- Skirt for Catherine 2
- Wedding dress for Catherine 3
- Braces for Marco and Rodolpho
- Flat cap for Eddie
- Dress for all Beatrice's
- Hairband for the wedding for Beatrice 3
- Wedding outfit for Beatrice 3