Rehearsal 2

Overview

• Head, Heart, Guts and Groin
• Rough Block Act 2
• Contextual Research

The rehearsal started with a practical physical exercise that was aimed at allowing the actors an opportunity to make practical/physical explorations and decisions about character. This work focused on Head, Heart, Guts and Groin. We discussed what types of people and emotions we might associate with people who strongly identify their behaviour or characteristics with these areas of the body.

Head, intellectual/rational/imaginative 

Heart, loving/emotion/integrity/honesty

Guts, appetites/anger/aggression "gut instinct"

Groin, animalistic/sexual/survival

The actors explored moving with their focus on each of these body parts respectively exploring how 'leading' with each one could effect physicality, movement and voice.

In the same way as we had with Act 1 we began a rough block or 'walking read' of Act 2.

We finished the rehearsal with a sharing of some contextual research that the company had undertaken. We divided this roughly into Historical, Social, Political and Cultural, acknowledging throughout how many of the facts overlapped and encompassed several of these contexts at a time.

Some detail has been lost, but it gives an idea of some of the areas the
discussion covered and a useful prompt into more research.