Started blocking act 2 of DFTA today. Before we did that, we all read through Avt 2 together as a group so we could get to grips with the script. It's suppose to start off with Dizzy doing a dive and the gang catch her Emily was playing Dizzy, but she didn't really want to do it. So Rachel was fine with it and it didn't change the way the play went at all. So LuLu(played by Mel) did it instead. So just a couple of lines were given to Mel. Rachel's idea was to add in a bit of physical theatre to the play, so she suggested we all hold the person opposites arms in one long line,facing out to the audience and hold on nice and tight to make sure Mel doesn't fall. We worked on this for a long time, as we wanted Mel to feel safe and make she wasn't getting her when she dived. Rachel saw it from the front and said it looked really good. Mel said she didn't get hurt either.
Once we did it with Mel, later on in Act 2 we had to do it with Ben. Ben plays Zack who owns the circus and wants the gang to help him. That's why in this particular bit he is teaching Angel(played by Danielle) how to dive. So we did the same again, and made sure we worked on it for a long time, making sure Ben felt okay about, and again it went really well and there were no casualties. We had to make his dive look like we were professional by this point. When we did it with Angel, I thought it would be a good if she doesn't actually do it properly and we forget she is going to dive. So I suggested the 4 people at the end should still be holding hands, but talking amongst themselves not realising Angel is going to dive, so we fall over with her. This would work really well I thought, as it will look quite funny as Ben has just done it all professional and then it shows a down fall in the fact that maybe we cant do it, as Angel mucks it up. It also shows what typical teenagers would be like; not paying attention, being clumsy etc.
They were the most important things we had to worry about in Act 2. Everything else we blocked looked good, and everyone was happy with what we had. We all worked really well as a team. I think for next time I need to make sure I know all of my lines properly and cues and go through Act 1 and 2 in my head.
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