Shakespeare Term: Director Notes

GENERAL NOTES THROUGHOUT THE MAJORITY OF REHEARSALS

Wait till you've finished speaking before you move.
Stage yourself on a diagonal to reach all 3 sides of audience.
Balance the stage!
Have fun with the scene when you're teasing Beatrice - needs to be big and over the top.

SCATTER THROUGH NOTES

Check lines for idiosyncrasies in the language/subconscious paraphrasing.
Pronunciation of certain words: florentine, Benedick, canst, ere/air
If you're speaking in verse, check iambic pentameter and include ED's to follow the rhythm
Pronounce st's
Work on dialogues. Do I need to stand further upstage etc? If you can't see two bits of the audience at the same time move position.
Think about separating the stage as opposed to coming together.
Don't close the space to talk to people - keep it open.
As you go through scenes in script, work out a reaction to every line said by someone else for every scene you're in.
Heighten first scene with Claudio. Needs to be more sense of lust.
Needs more emotion, tears and passion overall.

RUN THROUGH NOTES: 14TH OF MAY

Hero needs to enter before Beatrice in first scene to end up on stage right.
Girls need to curtsy instead of bowing head.
Everyone on stage needs to be engaged in something during Benedick-Benedict exchange.
Everyone needs to be enjoying the men's dance and chatting.
Refer to Claudio as the 'good husband/ in scene with Claudio, Don Pedro and Leonato.
Both gulling scenes need to have much more awareness of Beatrice and Benedick. Audience need to see you seeing Beatrice.
Pleach-ed not pleached
Hit on 'not to be so ODD from all fashions'

JOHN'S NOTES ON THE 15TH OF MAY

RAE'S NOTES ON THE 15TH OF MAY

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