Yale School of Drama

Yale School of Drama
Luis and Moises

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Public Performance - must comment

Everyone
Some of you keep making the same mistakes
Diction
Move a little bit at the beginning or it looks like a bad freeze.
React more with the letter
JUdith turns around to look at others – there must be reactions from everyone to Judith
Louder Tipperary – almost shouting at the end.
Music
SPEAKER MUST BE IN FRONT OF CURTAIN
PEOPLE HOLDING HEADS
CANNOT HIT CURTAIN
Judith and Joan
Sweaters during Joan and Judith scene.
Need to hear breathing during this scene.
Mrs. Briggs
Bus driver
BEAT before your first line.
Can bus driver enter from USL or SL
Photographer/Bela
Must have flashes
Judith
Must hear passionate line
Hair wrap during factory?
Sob during the letter from Frank
Vary emotional lines – in factory and Stop killing us
GUN SHOT
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Dead people
Where are the flag pieces?
Mira and Tom
Show Mira where the bottle is.
Cutting second Tom and Mira scene.
Joan
I shot a man- Gutteral
Angie/Mira
MUST HAVE SOCKS OFF – Judges will kill us on this.
Tom
RAF pilot – straddle the pylon
Must have pilot hat

Frank/Frakker
Diction at the beginning –
Mustache?as Frakker
DO NOT SHOUT AS FRAKKER  - VERY UNPROFESSIONAL AND CANNOT UNDERSTAND YOU – SWITCH IT OFF
Could not understand fruit cocktail line
Watch Marinda’s video about coming behind Judith
Gently
didn’t believe the first scene.
Sheila
Crash course to audience
Well – disgusted
Can’t hate them any more – no pause
Factory scenes
Neither one worked.
People noises during – especially second scene
Kaytlyn gets the – no other jobs line.
Mr. Briggs
Foreman
Foreman didn’t work – seemed stiff
He’s okay - louder
Viv
Make it evident that First soldier cannot dance – then show him
Tom and Mom
When Judith tries to get the doll – the No and moving Tom’s arm should be together.
Dead girl
Can I have my body back? - WEIRDER
IMPORTANT
Kids’ cards
REHEARSALS
Next week - Monday night - long rehearsal

9 comments:

  1. I think we can be honest, that wasn't our best performance. Knowing this, I still think we can do so much better and put on this play seamlessly. I think that we got all of the mistakes and bad stuff out then and we should be over it now. From here on out we should take these critiques and continue to improve the show rather than give a less than worthy performance. We have the capacity to do so much with this show, and I think we just need to "trust the process."

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  2. that definitely wasn’t our overall best performance, but I’m am very pleased with how the Briggs scenes went, it’s defin getting better. We can still improve but it’s definitely taking steps in the right direction. I feel like there’s a lot of times where we lose tough with our characters and are more focused on what we are supposed to do then being and portraying the emotions of our characters. We need to take some time before each performance, practice, anything really and step inside the minds of characters and out of ourselves. Once we neighbors to be our characters the other things will come naturally because it’s just what our character does.

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  3. Our next rehearsal we should focus on breathing and people noises and see how it elevates the show. I just think we need to focus on every scene and every little detail within the scene that way we can get it down. Like we worked in the factory scene for 30 minuets and it got so much better! We just need to break the show and our characters down to the smallest details so we can get better!

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  4. this performance was for sure rough.. i think we really need to work on always getting the gunshots on time and we definitely need more people noises. there needs to be more emotion in just about every line. i really think this will come with everyone getting more in touch with their character. ill make sure to do my best to make sure costumes and accessories are where they need to be.

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  5. So we know that this performance wasn't our best, but like Mrs. Kuehler said, we can use these mistakes to make our play all the better. We already went through the transition to the bar scene and it looks so much better! If we do that with other parts of the show, we can make it amazing and insure we don't have another performance like this. I think the dead scene is starting to look rehearsed and just like how we do different things every bomb scene, we need to make each dead scene look fresh and unscripted.

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  6. here are my notes from sunday:

    anyone else think colin falling looks fake?

    kaitlyn and reagan find hiding spots sooner

    briggs louder

    kate don’t go down? right

    colin laugh and whisper with the doll as kadyn is talking

    more smoke in dead scene

    little bit louder bum bums

    don’t have your hands in the air if you’re not gonna protect your head. it looks like you’re worshipping or something

    did anyone hug kadyn and say you’re sorry and stuff??

    alee cardigan in second factory scene

    nobody knocked over factory scene, everyone figure out what is yours to take

    evan try not to die behind crates


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  7. This performance was definitely not our best! We really need to work on each transition. We also need to work on getting the gunshots down. Kaytlyn remember that the Briggs are rich and you can’t touch them. Colin maybe don’t move as much as you do in Tom and Mira scene. Kayden maybe needs to work on reacting more to Frank’s death, your husband just died we need to see how much you are hurting. We definitely need to work on setting the factory scene faster. We are almost there! We just need to focus every rehearsal and give our 100% every time.

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  8. This preformance wasn’t the best but it was t the worst. Look over your critiques, and put them to action.

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  9. I don't believe this was our worst performance but it wasn't our best only cause of effort! Always 100% all the time!

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