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Saturday, February 11, 2017

The Crucible Notes – 2 February, 2017

The Crucible notes from today's rehearsal are posted below in case anyone did not have access to Facebook.  Thank you for your hard work! :)  Also, shout-out to Cheyenne for separating it all out and typing it up so beautifully - you're sincerely an incredible AD!

The Crucible Notes – 2 February 2017
Act 1 Scene 1
Hayden: 
  • How would you actually tell someone to get out?
  • When you tell Abagail to sit, why did you move the chair you sit in and not use it?
  • Make sure your body language matches your lines.
  • “Where is my wood” – throughout that entire section when you are yelling at Proctor, you are insulting him, NOT complaining, make sure it sounds like an insult. 
  • Vary your tactics
  • In the end, (when Tituba is in the chair) your overlapping was good, but you can’t overlap so much that Tituba doesn’t even had time to answer. 
Michaelann:
  • Great posture!! Thank you!!
  • Looking at Parris when he exits is really nice. 
  • When you say “I saw Indians smash my dear parents heads.” You are using your higher register and you can’t on that line. It needs to be lower and a bit more malicious. 
  • After Kylan enters, your beats and switches need to be more clear (around “Oh john give me a word”) 
  • Stay honest
  • Good reactions and staying in character! (: 
  • “That frog jumped in there” that needs to be more of a realization.
Noah:
  • Be even more comforting when Ann is talking about her “Dead babies” you started to, now just make it bigger. 
  • Don’t move awkwardly around the chair with Addie, move with confidence. 
  • Good looking at Hale’s books after he sets them on the dresser.
Heather:
  • CHEAT OUT!!
  • Looking after Parris when he leaves was really nice!
Kylan: 
  • Make your beats when you’re alone with Michaelann more clear.
  • React more to Betty, when she freaks out.
  • You can’t leave until Giles is completely finished with his line. “No – no John, I think not. I have some few queer questions.” You have a line after that. 
Jordan:
  • Cheat out!!
  • Slow down your lines, you are talking to fast. 
  • Don’t stand in front of people
  • Have reactions
Addie:
  • Don’t move awkwardly around the chair with Noah, move with confidence.
  • Slow down your lines a bit, we can’t understand you when you go fast. 
  • Good looking at Hale’s books when he puts them on the dresser.
  • Isn’t Ann supposed to get Tituba?
Emma:
  • Slow down your lines! (Especially “I fear it”)
  • Watch your body language, you have a tendency to straighten up and go back and forth between straight and old.
Jezory:
  • Don’t stand in the wing, we can see you. 
  • Isn’t Ann supposed to get Tituba?
Sophie:
  • You can’t wear socks
  • You have to have diction when you’re screaming, we can’t understand you at all.
Everyone in that scene:
  • Pacing 
  • DICTION
  • Males – Don’t open your legs so wide when you’re sitting, it isn’t time period
  • POSTURE – EVERYONE
  • DICTION
  • If you are old, you HAVE TO SLOW YOUR LINES
  • DICTION AND PROJECTION

Act 1 Scene 2
Cassie:
  • “Raise her chin like a prince” that whole line was to strong. 
  • Going to the stairs to leave was a great choice, thank you for making him make you stay
  • Be honest with double lines
  • Don’t use cry voice
  • You had a weird cross – you can’t sit before Kylan tells you too. 
  • STOP TOUCHING YOUR NECK!
  • Beautiful word endowment
  • Nice reaction to “Rebecca’s Charged”
  • STOP CROSSING ARMS!
  • Nice overlapping
  • Make sure your lines with Mary aren’t to strong.
Kylan:
  • Are you trying? Where are you, and where are you not? Clear switches.
  • “What see you?” double line was great!!
  • Don’t yell too much
  • Good job with double lines today
  • “I follow the notion” needs to be to Cassie
  • Nice “Christian house”
Bryce:
  • Quicker entrance
  • More tactics needed
  • Variance on your lines
  • Why ask things!
  • Word endowment was better in the second half
Kirby:
  • Good reaction
  • Diction
Jordan:
  • Good reactions when you first come in
  • Start your line as soon as Kylan dismisses Kirby “Leave me Francis leave me”
  • Diction
Lucas:
  • Clarify “Man are you blind” with Struiks
Emilee:
  • Nice strength and fade with your body movements
  • Good reactions
Everyone:
  • Have honesty with double lines
  • PROJECTION
  • Beats are nice in the first half
Act 2 Scene 1
Michaelann:
  • Come further in before you start
  • Thank you for grabbing the lantern before leaving
  • You have to BITE your words when you go high
  • Good connection to Kylan
  • Have more tension
  • DICTION
Kylan:
  • Good pushing her away
  • Have more tension
  • DICTION
Act 2 Scene 2
Jordan:
  • Cheat out/diction
Bryce:
  • Good pacing in the first part
Nate:
  • Don’t anticipate people cutting you off
  • “Pray you sir” nice (:
  • Anytime you ask a question, you have to leave a beat for others to react
  • Know your cutoffs 
Lucas:
  • Don’t sway
Jaren:
  • Good job slowing down your lines!(:
Emilee:
  • Good reactions
  • Good change with “No sir”s they were nice
  • When you say “Mr. Proctor” to Abagail, you need to have more nervousness in your voice for that to make sense.
  • Genuinely add pauses
  • When Kylan grabs you don’t be too distracting
  • Go over the lines when the girls repeat you 
Noah:
  • Stand with convection and purpose
Hayden:
  • Keep reacting, but don’t be to shifty when you’re sitting on the bench
  • Know your cutoffs 
  • More denying when you say you “didn’t see anyone naked”
Michaelann:
  • Don’t be so bouncy when you walk in
  • Great walk away when accused of being wrong
  • Don’t squeak when you go high
Kylan:
  • Posture when you’re sitting 
  • Have reactions when you’re sitting to “Goody Proctor always kept poppets”
  • Don’t be distracting when grabbing Emilee in the courtroom 
  • Don’t yell so much
Townsgirls:
  • Need much more reaction when Danforth says “Her neck will break for it” 
  • Practice repeating with Emilee and Nate
  • Repeat EXACTLY WHAT MARY SAYS
  • Better screaming picture thank you!!! (:
Abram:
  • Good grabbing Emilee
Cassie
  • Don’t use “cry voice” 
Everyone:
  • I LITERALLY CANNOT WRITE DICTION ENOUGH TIMES!!!!!
  • Projection
  • Dovetail
  • Pacing – repeating section
  • KNOW YOUR CUTOFFS (DON’T ANTICIPATE THEM)
  • Pacing = SPEED UP NOT SLOW DOWN
  • More reactions to “God is dead” (Especially the Reverends)
Act 2 Scene 3
Lucas:
  • Projection
Jezory:
  • Projection and Diction
  • Let Abram grab your arms don’t put them out for him
Nate:
  • Watch your body language
  • If you’re going to talk to the window do it confidently 
  • If you stand on “No more” (to cut off Bryce and Jaren) make it purposeful and don’t awkwardly walk back to the stool
  • Good grabbing Cassie “Are you stone?”
  • Good tension with Bryce “Andover” section
Cassie:
  • Cheat out
  • Vary tactics (tender, loving)
  • Pacing when you’re on the bench with Kylan 
  • “I have no learning for it” (:
Bryce:
  • Good tension with Nate “Andover” section
  • Good counter
Kylan:
  • Pacing with Cassie when you’re on the bench
  • Don’t awkwardly walk slowly to the bench just sit down
  • More tactics throughout the “this is my name” section
  • Exit quicker
Emma:
  • Good slow lines
Zach:
  • Good staying engaged 
Hayden:
  • You have to rush after Proctor (don’t run)
  • “Proctor Proctor” needs to be different
Everyone:
  • Make Tituba and Sara’s exit bigger
  • KNOW YOUR ENTRANCES
  • If someone is supposed to cut you off just keep talking until they cut you off 
  • Watch your body language when your arms are by your side (make sure you have tension in your body)
  • Guide Proctor to the bench to sign the paper
  • CUTOFF’S MUST BE REAL 
  • When Kylan tears the paper everyone needs to react more it was too casual 
  • Pacing
  • Abram and Emma, good timing with exit
  • Proctor needs to exit quicker
  • Listen to people
Things that need to be clarified 
  • Fix MA and Heather “beat Betty” moment 
  • Fix Betty’s screaming moment
  • Fix right before Tituba enters and up to when she is sitting 
  • Abrams entrance in the courtroom scene 
  • “Chill and shadow” section right before girls start repeating Mary 
  • Pick line when Kylan and MA look at each other when Elizabeth is in the courtroom
  • Cassie’s exit
  • Entrance with Cassie and Abram in the jail