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.

LOG BOOK INFORMATION


Year 13 Common Ground Log Book

Rehearsing for Performance

Working as performers within an ensemble, conduct research, participate in exploratory and developmental workshops, attend rehearsals, review and develop performance roles to bring a project towards live performance. Show initiative in rehearsal and be encouraged to develop a sense of professionalism and personal responsibility towards the planned performance.

Rehearsing for Performance Portfolio of documentary evidence – Actors Log

  1. Research Log
    • Relevant social, historical, cultural, economic, political context
    • You should include all group research tasks but also your own research and how you have interoperated and applied it when developing your role.
    • Character research
    • ALL RESEARCH NEEDS TO BE JUSTIFIED SO WE CAN SEE HOW IT HAS HELPED YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PLAY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR CHARACTER.

  1. Rehearsal Notes
    • Performance methods and techniques (which exercises and techniques have you used, whose techniques are they, how did they help you create you role etc).
    • Evaluate the rehearsal process as it progresses, focussing particularly on your own personal progress.
    • You should be using peer observations, self-evaluation, feedback and criticism as a cue for further and detailed exploration and progression of your role.
    • Analysis of how you have responded to feedback.
    • You should include your director’s feedback & notes in your portfolio accompanied with your response to the feedback/notes and you will act upon them. Action planning for improvement, which should then be demonstrated in subsequent rehearsals.
    • Analysis of how well you have carried out your rehearsal task
    • Review and analysis of your own contributions and role
    • Evaluation of the rehearsal process as a whole
    • Analysis of how you have developed your skills
    • Analysis of how well you have carried out rehearsal tasks.

  1. Annotated documentation
    • Rehearsal script,
    • Choreographic notation 
  2. Photographs & Video footage of rehearsals.
You can submit this work as a piece of writing, a notebook, an audio diary, a video diary, or online as a blog.

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