We carried on blocking this rehearsal and my role as master of the ship is pretty much done after the first scene so I take on my second role as a spirit there onwards.
We went over the scene where ariel and the spirits hypnotise Ferdinand and bring him to Miranda.
Us spirits (including ariel) come in after caliban leaves so that it is only us and Ferdinand on stage. Before he comes on, we explore the space and almost introduce ourselves to the audience and we travel around in an airy manner before bringing in Ferdinand. When we travel around the space, we have to have a light, graceful way of doing it because spirits aren't embodied, they're things that disappear in the air, or a figment of one's imagination and I think that in due course, us spirits will agree on a certain way of travelling.
When we bring Ferdinand in, each of us are holding different parts of him such as an arm, a hand, his head, etc. but he is walking around visually aware of his surroundings. During his little speech, us spirits form a horse shoe kind of circle around him and we watch him. When he finishes talking, we slowly stand up one by one. I'm the last one to stand up and when I do, we start dancing in circles around him and we sing our song. Our main purposes here is to be a source of comfort, hypnotise him but yet we are telling him what has happened and that everyone he knows might possibly be dead.
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