'Our House' Dress Runs

'Our House' Dress Runs


During each dress run, we focused on transitions between scenes along with costume changes and when they would be happening. When transitioning between scenes, we would have blue lighting to signify when the story is changing from Good Joe to Bad Joe, and vice versa. As well as this, we became aware of the noise level created by movement of props and vocal communication between cast members; we found the best way to combat this was would be to organise backstage and split the props into act one and act two so that backstage was a lot cleaner and easier to move prop on and off stage smoothly.

We focused on line delivery and physical approach to our characters according to their personalities and their emotions during the scene. We also work on song queues, entrances and exits so that each actor knew when they were purposed to sing as well as queues for the musicians. I finalised on some blocking for scene, an example of this is my death scene (when the house is on fire); we decided that I would run down the stairs in between the audience to make the story flow and make it clear that my character was dead in Bad Joes story and lived in Good Joes story.

We focused on costumes and lighting, also, during our dress runs. We wanted to portray our characters clearly through costumes but also create an exciting and joyful atmosphere throughout the entirety of the piece with a wide variety of vibrant colours. We decided to use lighting to portray the house fire with reds, oranges and white.