Dress and Tec Run Rehearsal Notes: How to improve 

   I found the dress run particularly useful as it gave me an opportunity to focus on moving around in the space, work on my vocal projection and play to all sieds of the audience.

 How to improve
When I am climbing the front ladder of the frame I started too late as I wasn’t talking on the frame as my back is turned away from the audience blocking my communication, projection and facial expression. Therefore, whilst I climbed and once Rosalind had spoken this left a “dead space” which wasn’t long but sucks some energy from the quicker pace and excitement that is present in the scene and is not needed. Therefore, as Rosalind asks all of her many questions I am going to adjust my timing by playfully rolling my eyes and excitedly climbing the frame to tell her she asks them. This way I feel it will enhance the energy of the scene and in this way we shall “bounce” off of each other more as it is important that our connection onstage is strong to communicate our relationship.

-          As an ensemble we need to remember to always have a mixture of cast sitting, lying and standing. We can come further forwards right to the very edge of the floor mat and lean on pieces of frame to bring a stronger cohesive sense of ensemble. 

New staging of the marriage at end:

The staging of the ending wedding scene has been altered for the performance which we ran through a couple of times. As Hymen starts to sing Oliver takes my hand and leads me to coupled Phoebe and Silvuis who in turn go around the frame from couple to couple as we adjust our staging until all of the couples are arrange with more space. This looks more pleasing to the eye and shows that whilst the wedding is a happy and cohesive event the audience is able to focus on the individual couples in love as well. This is helpful as there are four couples getting married at this point, making the scene less confusing and muddled for the audience. We take it in turns to bow towards one another during the music and then put our arms around each other as we are married.

At the very end we come out of our “As You Like It” role and as school girls hug one another to celebrate the end of the play that the school girls have just performed. We wait for Rihannon and Lucy’s cue to bow to the audience.