Week Two From The Rehearsal Room

End of week two and with the bank holiday everyone worked extra especially hard to get the rehearsal time in this week, and it really paid off. 

We started the week going over our Act One scenes with a fine tooth comb. One of the challenges of Shakespeare is making sure that the story is really clear, as the language can take longer for our modern ears to process. The cast and Gary have been incredibly creative this week trying out different ways of approaching the language and exploring different ways of saying each line to make the story really clear and to crack open our understanding of the play.  

On Tuesday evening the actors met our younger cast for the first time. It was great to see some of the scenes that they'd worked on separately come together and to have the opportunity to play together to discover what and who the fairies are.

Towards the latter end of the week we started looking at Act Two and tackling the question of who’s in love with who, and when, in the forest. We had some levels and stairways put up in the rehearsal room to replicate the set which really helped us as it meant the actors had a whole new playground to play with. Needless to say jumping, rope swinging and crash mat antics followed. Exciting stuff! 
 

Helen Barnett
Assistant Director