Rest of the rehearsals

The last few rehearsals mainly revolved around the other scenes that were from the middle onwards so we've been practising the scenes that I'm a spirit in more than the opening scene where I'm the master of the ship (we've been through that maybe 2 or 3 times).  I know where to come in and out but we run through one scene over and over then into the next, we haven't really made the transitions fluid or ran through the whole thing non stop yet and that is a slight concern I have for our upcoming tech run. My physicality for my spirit is pretty much sorted and I know what I'm doing in terms of cues and group work, us spirits have it nailed down.

Now that the rehearsal period is basically over, I feel that I am ready with my spirit work but the storm part needs some more work. It's a good scene and it works well, it's just that I'm meant to be shouting commands and encouragement a to my crew but I also don't want to shout over people's lines or take the attention off other people or be so loud that I get on everyone's nerves. To avoid these issues, I will shout commands but I won't be doing it all the time, just every so often. As the master of the ship I'm meant to keep the stormy atmosphere up and I'm the leader which means being loud but there's only so many commands I can say before I'm repeating myself and the audience would be like "you said that literally 20 seconds ago, shut up already".

Finally, working on our stage will be a lot different fromworking in a classroom because the theatre is meant to be a lot bigger and we haven't looked at our props yet or how they're going to be arranged but I think we will grow accustomed to the space. I look forward to getting a feel for how everything will work on the night of the performance, how to get to where and how my costumes feel. Especially the spirit costume.