How did rehearsals and the production process contribute to the final performance

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How did rehearsals and the production process contribute to the final performance?

Planning rehearsals:-

After would had received the stimulus the first thing we set about doing was discussing how to use our time efficiently and effectively. Obviously we needed to do research first on the stimulus however we felt that this should be a ongoing process rather then do it all at the beginning an then rehearse and practicing scenes which was mainly done through improvisation. We decided this because every week we had 2 hours in a classroom, were practical work couldn’t realty be done as the class room was do small and their were tables and chairs, so this was ideal for research and doing small practical things such as finding out our characters background by hot seating.  while the other 3 hours we didn’t want to waste the opportunity of being able to use the space, as we were in the studio, so this time was going to be used for creating and rehearsing scenes etc.

Rehearsal process:-

In the classrooms sessions we would often research the mental illness that we were thinking about using. This helped us because after looking at the symptoms of some of the illness we felt that they be extremely hard to use, as their symptoms were often difficult to interpret. This contributed to the final performance as our play was more authentic as we had researched the symptoms well and had made sure if a character was suffering from the mental illness he had those visible symptoms. We also carried out hot-seating during these sessions on our characters; we did this so we could find out more about the characters, people were playing.

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During the time in the studio, we often some idea of what the scenes was going  to be about, so the people who were in the scene would normally improvise the scene and the rest of us who weren’t in the scene would watch and give them idea’s and say what was working well and what wasn’t. what I think worked well with this way of rehearsing process was that everyone was contributing to the scene, and coming up with different idea’s as different members of the group always saw something or came up with something that none of ...

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