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 7


Overview
  • Warm up
  • Line by line story
  • Detailed scene work
This was the first rehearsal after a two week break. The company lead their own Warm Up, a physical stretch and then a song and dance game.

The company tell the story of the play adding a line or so each. The exercise is useful for everyone to reconnect with the play and what its about, its story.
  • Do we know the journey of the play? 
  • Do we know the story? 
  • Do we know parts of the story we are not telling?
We should know which part of the story we are telling and how we fit into the whole

Detailed scene work on Act 1, Scenes 4 to 7

We considered what relationship Cromwell and Wolsey have and what they might think about each other.

Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Cromwell


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