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.
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