Yale School of Drama

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Luis and Moises

Sunday, January 21, 2018

January 21 Critiques

Everyone
Over exaggerated scared faces.
Cannot hear tipperary in back
Be more scared.  This is the first bomb ever.
Stay in character at all times.  Someone said – sorry when they messed up – don’t do that.
STEP LIGHTER ON GRAY SET – SOUNDS HORRIBLE
Quiet backstage
LEARN LINES
No one looked up during first bombing.  Someone could stand in shock because there were over a hundred spitfires that dropped 3,500 tons of explosives in the first day.
In slow mo, your steps have to be in sync with your arms – both exaggerated and slow.
Women
React to Churchill on the radio!!!!!!!
Talk when setting up the factory scene
Living people
The alarm just sounded – you could be looking for bodies.  Move slowly.  As things are found, look at them and wonder to whom they belonged.
Frank, foreman, and crippled man
Enter factory scene in a diagonal from USL.
Frank



Frakker
Setting good people’s nerves on edge same pace and vocal level as previous line.
Work on changing faster.  Don’t worry about buttoning the shirt. Get the jacket buttoned and let Judith help you.
Cheat out more – we only see profile.
Alister
Smuts
Not embarrassed enough. Louder
Not enough authority
Photographer
Bela
What yer names where you off to?  A little awkward – voice same as Bela’s
Taking pics – be louder
Accent was lost – do you mind
Flowers and cake – louder
Move stools so we can see Soldier 2 and Angie
As bela stand like a lady
Angie
Look what I found – remember you just took that from a dead body.
Spencer & Maky
You didn’t have a weird face in Tipperary
Briggs
Shoes need to be black
Dead Girl

You may have to crawl past stuff so we can see you as if you are trying to get out.  Move, you are blocked in dead people scene.
Judith
More emotion reading the letter. Sometimes when people died, they included the last letter that was written by the dead person.  Let’s see you have two letters.
Alee
Help Cooper change faster.
SOUND
Fade when characters are talking
Australian 1
Jacket – ask Alee and FREEZE
When dancing don’t be afraid to move your feet.
Angie
It’s all crooked at the top – you are talking about the lines on your leg, not your dress. Make that clear.
Mr. Briggs
Foreman
bartender
Have your head up when you freeze.
























12 comments:

  1. I am going to need to work more on every bombing scene, each one has something different and I need to polish each action. I also have to work on freezing and unfreezing at the right times. And most importantly for me I have to move slowly and consistently throughout the slow motion scenes because I often get distracted and go into regular motion which is easily spotted from the audience.

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  2. I will work on picking out the things that are wrong and make them known to the actors or write them down as notes. Good notes are essentials for actors because the crew who takes them are the ones who can see the show through the audiences perspective

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  3. I think one of the main things is staying in character. If we can fix that it will help siginificantly.

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  4. I agree with my bad posture and will work on it also working on hitting verbs in both of my parts. I will cheat out more as Frakker.

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  5. My sound cues need to be more on time. And I need to fade out faster when people are talking-Riley Emery

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  6. I am working on making the letter more emotional and finding times to pause and make my voice shake so that the audience understands that this is an important part and how emotional it was.

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  7. I am going to work on my relationship with Johnny, and Im going to get better at interacting with my family on stage.

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    1. Work on getting your lines memorized with feelings and more people noises

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  8. I will keep my head up and STAY FROZEN!

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  9. I think that we need to work on the song at the beginning just a little bit more to give the play more life at the beginning. I am going to work on my relationship with Reese and make sure that our scene is believable. I also want to make viv a person and not just a character that I am playing. I don’t think this play will succeed unless we all learn to work together and we all learn how to work the stage and the play. We all just need to put in hard work and good things will come from it.

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  10. I need to move more, and this is from me watching the video. I move too slow and I need smaller and faster movements, and I need to keep my head up.

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  11. I really think that the actors should really work on intimacy there doesn’t seem to be enough touching in the play

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