I began the rehearsal with a few warmups to prepare them physically. We were pressed for time, so I did no linguistic warmups. I was hoping that we would be able to do a timed run-through today, but this was not the case however as Lewis and Conor know the lines, but often forget or pause before them.
I asked them to perform Scene 1 which I planned to make no notes on, although I gave a few important ones at the end. I told them that Chelsea needs to have more energy when playing the little girl, Eleanor needs to be more loving as the parent and more cruel as the foster parent and that Lewis needs to go over his lines a few times at home.
After being thrown out of the suitable quiet room we were in, we were forced to rehearse in the corner of the noisy, overcrowded G50. I asked them to go through Scene 2. The performance went very well and the only notes I had to give were that Eleanor had done exceptionally well learning and narrating the lines, but needed to go over them so as to avoid unnecessary pausing.
I then asked them to perform Scene 3 while I took notes. It was performed quite well and I gave a detailed list of notes at the end. I told Conor that he should not cross his arms while narrating as it makes him look like he isn't enjoying telling his story. He was also using an unusual inflection on a rhetorical question, which I asked him to correct. However, I did praise him for the brilliant voice he did for the little girl. I noticed that Chelsea appeared to be focused elsewhere in the scene, so I told her that next time we rehearse scene 3 that she needs to be enchanted by Conor's story.
We finished by running through the whole play again to make sure that they took on board the notes I gave them.
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