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