7th week 6th - 9th November

7th November (Tuesday) A DAY TO SHAW THEATRE

A standard proscenium stage.
https://theatredesigner.wordpress.com/theatre-design-101/stage-types-proscenium-arch/

We went to the Shaw Theatre!!

Everyone was so excited to see the place where they are going to perform at. When we got there, everyone started to go on stage and explore about the stage and backstage and also imagine if there're audience siting in front of all the seats. 

Rob asked us to use our time wisely because we couldn't stay for longer in there. So we quickly went in to character and started a full rehearsal. We changed some bits in the play as we're now on the actual stage, the space are gonna be a little bit different from where we usually rehearse in college.

I think we did better on the stage in Shaw Theatre, we can feel the atmosphere there and we did the rehearsal just like if we're on the actual day. We could see the last row in the audience seats were really far so when we speak, we always project our voice loud in order to get the voices there.

During our usual rehearsals, most of us exit our scene randomly, but on the actual stage, the exits and entrances will be at the side (wings), so we will need to work on how are we going to exit and enter each scene to make it look clearer for the audience.

A visit before performance day helps us a lot like...

• Blocking
• Exits and entrances
• How loud do we need to project our voice
• Where do we need to look while performing

8th November (Wednesday)

12 more days to our performance day in Shaw Theatre!!

Sharon wanted us to make ourselves a timeline of what are we going to work on for the rest of the time before performance in the Shaw Theatre. 

A rough planning timeline suggested by everyone.

Timeline :

9th November (Thursday)

11am to 1pm - full rehearse 

3pm to 3.30pm - talk about costumes

3.30pm to 4.30pm - full rehearse 

13th November (Monday)

11am to 1pm - talk about props

2pm to 3.30pm - full rehearse 

no scripts allowed

14th November (Tuesday)

12.30pm to 1.30pm - work on our blog as usual

2pm to 3.30pm - full rehearse

15th November (Wednesday)

10am to 11.30am - full rehearse

11.30am to 12pm - talk about costumes

16th November (Thursday)

9.30am to 10.30am - independant work

11am to 1pm - full rehearse

3pm to 4.30pm - full rehearsal with costumes

20th November (Monday)

11am to 1pm - full rehearsal with costumes

2pm to 3.30pm - full rehearsal with costumes 

21st November (Tuesday)

(to be confirmed)

before 6pm - gather at the Shaw Theatre


What will go well after planning ourselves a timetable?...

• Our time for rehearsals will be really organise, because we know exactly what are we going to do on that day in each lesson, so when we go to college we will follow our timetable. It can reduce any extra time for us figuring out what are we going to do or waiting for people to arrive, we will start rehearsal and when someone arrive late to the class/theatre, they will then join in with group. 
• We gave ourselves some time to talk about costumes and props, so that during the real performance we won't bring props or wear costumes that doesn't even fit with the performance. 
• Besides from all full rehearsals through out the week, we also gave ourselves time to update with our blog work during both tutorial and context period, so that we won't miss so much to update after performance.