Rehearsal Diary

This blog is a record of the rehearsal process of a production of Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn. The play is a part of The BRIT School theatre department’s Common Ground season. It will hopefully be a live resource for the actors in the company with contextual research and exercises undertaken through the process that the company can refer back to and add to.

Monday 19 November 2012

Rehearsal 5

Overview
  • Detailed scene work Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2 
  • Rehearsal task - fact and questions lists
  • Rehearsal task - Act and Scene titles
Following a physical warm up the company began detailed work on Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2. These two early keys scenes introduce us to the two of the three worlds of the play, Anne's after life, and the world of James I reign.  

There were two rehearsal tasks set for the company;

Task 1 - Four Lists

1) Facts about what exists and has happened before the action of the play commences.
2) Questions about what exists and has happened before the action of the play commences.
3) Facts about the immediate circumstances of the first scene.
4) Questions about the immediate circumstances of the first scene.

Task 2 - Titles

Label each Act and every Scene with a title. Something simple that summarises what happens and that allows the scene titles to offer a through-line of the play and give an insight into what the play is about.

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