Day 3: Blocking

Some of you, once you read the title of my post, probably cringed, or just stopped reading all together because, well, who wants to read a blog post about blocking?? Some of you were confused, and asked yourself, what the heck is blocking? So, now you're really interested in what's going on here. It must be something worth your while to read this, after all. Haha! I guess I'm over exaggerating a little bit. But only a little! Blocking is one of the most frustrating, confusing, and kind of boring parts of the play making process (even for the directors. We're all suffering here!).

Blocking is just an easy way to say this is where you need to be when you say this line, and this is what you need to be doing while that other person is talking, and these things will be ingrained into your brain in about two weeks. The director goes through the whole script and literally walks us through each line and what we all need to be doing in each scene. This is easy for a shorter play, but our play is 13 scenes long- and when I say long, I mean looonnng. Each scene takes about 30 to 45 minutes to block. For this play, we're taking 3 special days to do the initial blocking, then 4 more special days to go over that blocking and fix anything that the director decided to change. It's not hard work, but it's very tedious.

I have nothing against blocking! Without it, we would all be a jumble of actors saying lines, bumping into each other, and just causing general havoc. It is a process that requires patience and focus, but it's worth it in the end.

In other news! Fare Madrina gets a key and a broom for props!! The key (at least the working prop) is shiney and copper looking =) It's pretty. I like it. That's all.

Next rehearsal is this afternoon!

Think positive. Find the silver lining.

~Ana