This morning the actors joined in on a class at the mime centre, todays class was in viewpoints and suzuki technique. Luckily the class was taught in both German and English! While they did the class, Willem, Thomas and I planned the events for the rest of the day, an exploration extravaganza!
Also we had a new rehearsal venue...Willem and James' living room with the furniture taken out! PERFECT!
The mission for the next two days: to find Chekhov in Berlin!
This afternoon consisted of venturing out onto the U-Bahn while listening to a soundscape made by the ever talented sound guru Thomas Press. While listening to the soundscape they recorded their sensory journey, everything that happened around them and at what time in the soundscape they happened.
This work bought out some really exciting things; some beautifully real characters, idiosyncrasies, ways of waiting, smells, moments...things to dream around.
This was all too exciting to move on to the next planned piece of work, so the actors chose 8 of their favourite moments, and Willem and I worked them on the floor into a short piece of work: reading the moments aloud, morphing into the moment, building and layering, to add in some chekhov monologue. Andrew came forward and started his monologue, one by one the others stated their moment and morphed into it while Andrew picked up on their movement, again to build until Andrew was trying to pick up on every movement that passed him, he then says 'A lady picks her fingernails' and everyone stills and morphs into that moment. This was a very exciting small piece of work, and showed the massive potential in translating the exploration into work on the floor.
We then started to work on the idea of transitioning from the mundane/everyday to the abstract. In two groups; Tom, Ben, Jaci and Tai, Andrew, Runa. They made a five minute piece using some of their moments where they went from mundane to abstract. These pieces went from hilarious, to terrifying to intriguing all in five minutes.
We finished the day with reflection, and handing out our huge piles of reading and tasks for the evening (that's what happens when Willem, Thomas and I are able to spend two hours planning!!!)
Tomorrow, we head out to the great Berlin public to find the Chekhov in the people!
Aufregen!
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