Call Began: 7:00
Breaks: 7:30-7:40 and 8:30-8:40
Ended: 9:20
General:
We started by running through scenes 6 and 13 – using set pieces for the first time with these scenes. Some of the blocking was changed to accommodate the set pieces. During Wallace’s
We worked on scene 14. The blocking for this scene is very complicated, so we talked through all of the blocking first. Then, the actors walked through the scene once very slowly with their scripts – focusing just on getting the blocking down (not focusing on intention yet). Then, Kat gave notes to all of the actors and had them run the scene once more. During this next run, we did a start-stop method fixing the scene as they were running it. None of the intimacy or stage combat was used for the runs of this scene yet (Kat’s plan is to add it in on Friday, so that the actors could use this day just to focus on the scene’s general movement) In the last 5 minutes, Kat taught Caroline how to kill herself with the prop kitchen knife. She emphasized that Caroline would not be putting any actual pressure on her stomach with the knife.
Kat talked through intimacy with Caroline: no-fly zones, vocab, etc. We ran through just the intimacy section of the scene with only eye contact instead of the kiss. Then, they ran the scene a few times with the actual intimacy. After that, we ran the entire scene with the intimacy.
After scene 7, Kat explained the stage combat push to Jon and Caroline for scene 4. They practiced the push/fall three times in slow-mo. Then, they ran the whole scene with the stage combat- each time getting closer to the real-time push
Set:
In scenes 6 and 13 we used the psychiatrist chair and couch.
Props:
The psychiatrist used a clipboard and pen in scenes 6 and 13
We used a box, baby doll, and play money in scene 14