Tuesday 6th January 2015:
Today was our first day back, and we were all just getting back into the flow of things.
Rob told us all who we would be playing, although some people had already been informed before the Christmas break, and he told us which groups we are in.
We spent the morning doing a read through in our seperate groups, then came together and spent the rest of the day blocking the play, getting through as much as we could. The three groups took it in turns.
I play the character of Ariel, and also Boatswain at the start of the play.
We blocked the beginning of the play, the setting up of the stage and roughly the shipwreck scene, and after that it was a matter of planning where everyone entered and exited, and trying to get a good flow going in the scenes.
As it was the first time properly rehearsing together, it was interesting for everyone to get to grips with the script and how it feels playing off the other actors and actresses.
Wednesday 7th January 2015:
Today we continued blocking, and managed to get very far into the play.
It seemed quite tedious at times, as every scene had to be blocked and then repeated three times, each time with a different group.
It's important to plan our staging correctly though, and we did make a lot of progress today. It also gave us further opportunities to get used to doing this play together.
We had the rest off the week off to learn lines and do further research on the Tempest and Shakespeare.
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