Today we began to go through the list of scenes that take place in Mark and Roger's flat. When we got to Rent, we tested our ideas about the focus on the characters, and it worked well. I found it will also help the audience to hear clearly what I'm saying because I'm speaking at a normal volume, so the manic movement of running and jumping and shuffling of the gangs may have muffled my dialogue a bit. The Collins idea also worked out well. although he wasn't exact centre stage he wasn't right at the back out of sight.
We also went over Happy New Year B and Finale A as my character is involved in both those scenes, covering all the blocking.
Me and Sophie also did movement for 'Take Me Or Leave Me' with the help of Liam. We did an exercise similar to when me and Bryleah learned 'We're Okay', where we find a new direction to walk to each time. Because Maureen sings to me and tries to make me pay attention to her, everytime she approaches me I walk off in a different direction, making sure I use every area of the space. It's also effective as it shows my frustration and eagerness to escape her 'nonsense'. We then meet in the centre shortly before my verse starts, where we created the action of Sophie lowering to her knees in front of me, to which I reject her at "Kiss pookie" by pushing her head away. When we both start singing together from "That's it", we face each other keeping eye contact and walk around continuously in a circle. This is where Maureen has met her match, with this style of movement similar to two wild animals facing off, preparing to fight. At then end, we finish closely face to face, and as we say our last lines we exit opposite side of the stage. This concludes the relationship status after a long battle. Our movement is now all sorted for this scene, and I'm feeling much more confident about it.
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