This week started with improvising the scene when they turn into fish. So far it has probably been the most difficult and challenging part for the actors and the most amusing for me. It was fascinating to see how they adapted to different situations and experienced the animal’s world from their point of view. First Matt and Mike tried to improvise by themselves how to act as a fish, then the choreographer – Krisztián Gergye – came up with some ideas about fish-like-behavior.
Then some other thoughts occurred such as using Debussy’s Sea; blowing bubbles or holding a stick with a carton paper with bubbles and waves have drawn on it…
Then we started to discuss the customs and the stage decoration related to the whole play. The main idea is that all the elements of the stage decoration are suspended from the ceiling; then at certain moments they go down to the stage. There was an idea that we may not hide the technical solution behind the stage. It means that two people are standing back on the stage make the decoration move when necessary. This way the audience become the part of the trick.
Since the actors have to change characters and consequently their costumes within seconds, those should be simple but unambiguous. For this reason the best solution would be to use just caps or any hadcovers instead of a whole costume. When one actor plays two different characters at a time, we could use two-side-hadcovers. This way while turning into a different character they only have to turn from one side to another.
At last we got the Theater for rehearsing instead of the small rehearsal room we got used to… So making use of the lot of space the actors improvised the whole play with the help of the plot list. It took about 40 minutes to complete. By this they became more or less aware with the plot of the whole story so now – I guess – there will be much easier to go deeper into the details of the certain parts.
Annamaria Kaptay
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