2/13 1st Act
- A – good focus to camera at top.
- K – think lemming at top, you are being polite (overT)
- T – up faster, otherwise you block ben upstage(after bucket kick)
- A – anticipate having cigs in back pocket
- Cheat out
- T – side of table, not front
- K – turn out, focus to Ariel earlier during monlouge “tell me a fucking story”
- A – good looking at hand dring K’s monologue
- K – “he’s not backwards” good focus with A’s eye contact
- A – head titlting cadence – watch it
- K – watch turning towards T – SR will lose our face in audience
- A – fume into lines, be present in between lines
- K – struggle noises crescendo into gutteral screams.
- Vision is gone, no limp in leg, Ben
- B – after eye gouge, you can turn out to audience, not look at tupolski
- T – click pen on Kat’s head.
- “now A’s gonna hit you again” – 3 way blocking got fucked
- K – anticipate door knock by A, don’t let it run into your line.
- T – longer beat after K’s rant to you…figure out what you are going to do/react
- K take in “you have a right to be nervous”
- T – watch happy feet at the beginning of 3 gibbet – do it if its stagework for t, not for max, but good feet stomp punctuation
- K – longer beat after the end of 3 gibbet, take in your work, enjoy it.
- T/K – heads up, getting very internal
- K ‘this feels like school” – you can joke more through it, let us see you uncomfortable.
- K “then one night” – start to enjoy your story, tell it even more.
- STAGE WHISPERS
- K – pantomime the cleaver coming down on the boy’s feet.
- K “my idea is” you can get up and pace through your ideas on Hamelin
- K “fuck what’s in the box” hold your ground, no steps forward, stare down Ariel
- K – Michal is your archilles heal – it sets you off, how does this physicalize in your body behavior
- A – makes ure stage business doesn’t pull away from Tupolski talking about children
- A – ‘he will never be alright” was a lot more powerful in hushed tones as opposed to as a joke”
- K – let’s play with different reactions to what’s in the box.
- No blue lollis, your tongue was distracting
- Throw of toes, Declan?
- T – great sit on desk for end of scene breakdown
- Gets static over story time (3 Gibbet)
- Projection.
- What are Tupolski’s objectives? What are his intentions? Same with Ariel occasionally,
- Katurian needs to be more scared, not believable. Smells like a skunk whenever Tupolski gets closer to him – use this prompt.
- “open the fucking box”
- Enjoy the jokes – good cop/bad cop – let them play with each other
- Ben – hand tension, moments build upon one another
- Pull different intonations/cadences from each of the 3 actors onstage – falling into a rhythm.
- Open up stories, 4th wall diminished
- Gun powder out to audience? Rethink blocking (powder tends to blow out)
2/14
- Forrest – think through “once upon a time” before the lights are even up…let us come in on this moment
- M – what is your intention behind mimicking screams?
- M – turn yell out to audience
- K – let’s play with volume/quality levels of screams
- K – we lost “holding onto your leg”, take a moment to think through M saying “why”
- K – bring breath of torture through more of the scene. Don’t drop it
- K run suicides before this scene?
- M – good reaction to “box full of toes”
- K – let’s work on injury walk, need to pull it through.
- Breathing work!
- K “decent story” – that’s all to you, go into your writer head
- Even in funny moments, remember how terrifying this situation is
- K – wait a moment after “no” before extending hug to M
- M – let us see the itchy ass before you deliver the line. Show before telling
- K – nice evasion of joke seduction
- Change in blocking for Pillowman (from bed to bucket centerstage) – great. Keep.
- M – let’s find an age that your maturity level has peaked at – different cognitive levels are present right now.
- K – good hand tension during storytelling, but hold it for rest of scene.
- K – “time would slow” – lovely
- M – good getting bored behavior, K – “I’ve never been happy” – this is for you.
- K – good british “thank you”
- M – good enjoyment of “yes, I will, lying”
- M – think about covering your ears when K mentions the children’s screams – sensory memory
- K – go over lines for this scene
- Feel the pain in your side whenever you raise your voice, good place for varied breathing
- “I chopped his toes off” – K can make a gutteral noise (why I do theatre)
- M – keep pulling itchy ass through – it was great today.
- K – you can collapse in front of the door if you can’t stand any longer. It could be nice.
- “he reminds me of me” – K take a beat to formulate this response. Disbelief
- opposites…this always kills me
- K – you look manic after “you’re just like mom and dad” – awesome.
- After the “she did ants” K looked like you saw what M was capable of for the first time – push it.
- I want to find a place for K to look at camera in room – maybe before head smash?
- Person called mom, person called dad, K – find more levels, let’s work this excerpt soon.
- Think about motivations for crosses – which are supported, which aren’t?
- “what do you mean used to” – M – good place for varied breathing.
- K – when do you decide to kill him?
- Focus on prior circumstances
- “miserable lives and happy endings”
- “fruit salad” – again, stumble into joke
- don’t forget “when I won the discus”
- K – let us see you working through frustrations with M’s competence.
- “I don’t care if they kill me” – let us believe this is a choice you’ve made, the intention behind it.
- K “ok Michal, I’ll do that” GREAT. Good overlap
- M – “face basement…” moment to vary your reactions – try aggravated here.
- “Ta=done!” let us see this idea occur to you.
- K – nice stroking of hair on “peculiar”
- M – on bed, now is the time to check in with breathing, controlling, 4-2-4
- Eye contact on M’s last line was beautiful.
- K seeing rain clouds above, nice
- NEED SOUND OF RAIN
- K – you can push crying through the smothering even more.
- K did you get hit in the face?
- M – don’t shuffle down bed if you can help it
- Detectives? Take the moment.
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