Week Commencing 8th of May

Tuesday 8th of May

Today we worked on the beginning of Act Two, mainly focussing on the basketball scene.  While rehearsing this scene, this helped improve our teamwork as we had to work together to plan out who was passing the ball to who, so to the audience it looked random and chaotic, but we always knew who the ball would be in the hands of and passed to.  After this was the scene between McMurphy and Chief Bromden, when he finally speaks.  Since I wasn't needed in this scene, I went into the LRC to work on my production role and do more research on the play of One Flew Over and mental institutes.


Wednesday 9th of May

Today we finally performed the scene where Nurse Ratched confronts all the patients for their behaviour, trying to pressure Chief into talking, before McMurphy got into a fight with Aide Warren.  Since this scene is very physical, we made sure to be as safe as possible, by going through each part of it separately to make sure it was safe, before piecing it all back together.  This took a while as at first we tried walking through it in slow motion and without making contact.  We then did it like normal however it was quite difficult since I did have to punch McMurphy in the stomach but I couldn't put too much power behind it incase I did actually hurt him.


Thursday 10th of May

Today we did a run through of the first act for cast one.  This helped everyone begin to get off script and me to get better at my performance of  Williams and develop my chemistry with Warren, whilst also thinking about how I can differentiate the two Aides so they aren't just copies of this.  How we did this is by making Warren more aggressive and ready to fight, and Williams more laid back, willing to form bonds with the patients.  This is shown when Williams puts his hand up to vote for baseball, before Warren quickly pushes it back down.

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