'Our House'

'Our House'
In the past few lessons, we have been blocking the script of 'Our House'.

As well as blocking for the main characters, we also blocked the chorus in each scene.

Our teacher gave us free reign over the blocking and staging process, however suggested ideas if we found ourselves stuck. We completed the blocking process after three weeks.

During the blocking process, I suggested (during the prison scene, when Joe says he regrets meeting Sarah) that we should use prisoners to hold poles, the represent the prison bars, and that these bars should be diagonally down the stage; when Joe's Dad is talking to Sarah he could walk through the bars to get to her to portray the fact that he is dead.

Throughout the whole blocking process, everyone wrote their positions and placements so that it would be easy for each actor to remember this blocking during later rehearsals.

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Blocking and rehearsing has become a lot easier now that scripts are down because we can now focus on the staging of each scene rather than trying to stage everything whilst reading our lines of the page. We can focus on trasitions between scenes and who is going to enter/exit the stage at different points before/during/after the scene is anyone does at all; some scenes we are linking together by having little to no people leaving the stage so that we keep up the pace of the show and to keep the fluidity.

This also means that choregraphing the dances is much easier for the same reason as well as focusing on harmonies and the pitching of each song individually.