Rehearsals

We've jumped head first into rehearsal now and I feel that over the last couple of weeks the play is starting to take shape. Lines are coming a lot more with ease, especially playing the witch for me. 

We've got on with rehearsal really well, and now we've started working properly in our little groups (Pink, Black and Blue) we have got a lot more done. 

Although ben is shown directing; Daniella is my groups (Blue) official director. I feel that she is doing a really great job, and now I feel that she is directing as a whole, our groups piece is taking shape, and she allows us to have input too which I feel is great so it makes our group and piece wholesome and universal.

Ben in action directing the group

This is the scene where I am playing the porter. There is a strange knocking and I'm practically comparing it as though the knocking is the devils work condemning someone to hell. I am also very drunk, I'm supposed to keep guard on who enters the castle. He then starts to joke around pretending to be the porter of hell and condemning three examples of men. But still hearing the knocking kind of shakes him and he realises that this isn't hell, and in fact will stop mucking about, because he was going to let almost every Tom, Dick and Harry into hell. 

As he is about to find the keys to find the source of the knocking, almost caught in the act of being drunk, Macduff takes him by surprise. 

He explains all the side affects that drink can provoke. He also explains that it causes the urge to want to have sex, but takes away the performance.

I've had fun in rehearsals playing him, he's very different to any character I've ever played. He plays the comic relief; Duncan has been killed so rather than have audience being depressed all the way through, they have a character make the audience laugh as a sort of break from misery. 

The ease with playing this character is that you can almost get away with adlibbing or adding certain extra quirks; to make his drunkenness appear true.