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 8


Overview
  • Warm Up
  • Status 
  • Detailed scene work

After a warm up we focussed on status. We discussed the importance of giving status as well as playing status. It is important to delineate clearly all the various layers of tudor society and allow this to inform physicality and physical interaction with other characters.

The whole company experimented with playing characters from each of the 6 layers of secular and religious tudor society.  

Actors tried to incorporate their discoveries into their work on scenes.

Diagram of Tudor Social Structure
For more information:
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Tudors/society.htm

The detailed scene work was on Act 1, Scenes 8, 9, 10   

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