Full run through dress rehearsal

Here we had done the technical rehearsal and had the chance to do a run in the Hub with both casts with full costume if we had it and set.
Alex was able to come in and watch one of the performances, which happened to be cast A, so there was lots of pressure as we hadn't done many full rehearsals!
His notes were:
- We need to start performing in costumes, for those that didn't wear it, you won't know how movement sections will change and what you need to adapt until you put your costume on. It also can inspire you and give you new ideas on how you can add character quirks and details
- Make the librarian snaps really clear and precise, need to make them obvious to get the effect
- In 'brief encounters' couples stand closer together so the audience can see both at the same time as they'll be in close proximity, and you get to bounce off the energy from the other couple being closer
- Integrate lovesong singing and movement
- Lift your eye line in monologues so the audience can see your faces
- Make a big moment of being reunited! It's one of the biggest moments in the play don't waste it
- No fluffy entrances in the explosion, go with direction and commitment

Rose's notes:
- Get the shoes you will be wearing in the piece
- Keep lifting voice and projection as many voices were lost
- To combat the spacing in 'Brief Encounters' aim for the inside edges of the side bookcases
- Work on the shaping and phrasing of movement duet so it's not a showcase
- Add more integration into love letters, getting up and moving round the space during monologues, librarians keep moving with the letters
- Don't forget the hair pull between old and young Evie before the duet, reinforces same character

Jonathan's notes:
- Bring the whole space in, gets that intimacy with the audience again
- All vocals up
- Listen to the people before your lines, getting those truthful reactions and playing the moment
- Need to look at the table transition from the explosion to the hospital scene
- Reacting and responding to the 'seasons' section need to be heightened and increase in number

The next run cast A got to do was the following morning, therefore the notes on transitions that needed to be altered would have to wait, but taking on the notes of pace, reactions and listening, and use of voice I could take on and improve in the next run. Lifting vocals and adding more range and colouring to my dialogue was a target, becoming too used to one pitch or tone gets pretty boring after a while!

Jonathan's notes for the following run were:
- Spacing was a lot better and improvement
- Monologues better, remember to keep playing with them, proper joyful when speaking them!
- Need to act more playfully with the snoring comments, to show that ability to poke fun at each other when you know someone well, but that its loving and cheeky, again a relationship development
- Walk onto the stage as Nick exits the stage so Liv can clock me before she leaves, seeing younger self
- The Ed Sheeran duet has more acting in it and far less dancing orientated, less is always more
- Pace a lot better
- You had taken on the notes well done!