Today’s Date: 6/30
Show Title: Twelfth Night
Director: Hailey Pearce
Staff Crew: Brooke Crittenden and Joe Marsh (RDAs), Natalie Watson and Zoe Symons (Interns)
What We Did
First, we worked Act 1, Scene 1 off-book for the first time in the playhouse, really paying attention to detail work and learning how the transition from the end of the show song to the top of the play would occur. Then, we worked Act 1, Scene 2, which features (as all of the best comedies do) a shipwreck, this one separating a set of twins, Viola and Sebastian. After the shipwreck was fully planned and choreographed, with some excellent movement work from our Viola and Sebastian, Hudson and Wren, as well as from Emma and Ian, who play the Captain and Antonio, the characters who rescue each of the twins after the ship has sunk. Then, we ran acts 1 and 2 off-book, specifically focusing on detail work for Act 1, and learned tumbling movement with Joe during a break. The rehearsal was observed by our camp director, Lia Wallace, along with Reese McClellan, who works for the ASC.
Quick and Quotable
- From the play
- “Enough, no more. Tis not so sweet now as it was before.” – Orsino, Act 1, Scene 1
- From the director
- We’re all made of bones – Hailey
- Any discoveries you made besides Yugoslavia? – Hailey
- From the cast
- Start learning sign language – Marcy, after Hailey has said to stop taking backstage
- I will know what you’re saying even in sign language – Hailey
