meetings+record

Meetings log:

November 2nd: This was our first meeting. It along with all of the rest of them took place in the Myers Hall lobby or rooms around it to practice in. We discussed our concepts for the play and what that meant to each of the individual people with the different designs they were doing. We decided on how to merge all of our ideas for the concept into once coherent piece.

November 4th: We looked at what had to be done as a group and delegated out the tasks to each person and decided on a date at which they needed to be finished by so we could edit them all together and make sure they flowed well. Afterwards, Khalil and Hannah ran through the play as a read through to try out different ways of reading the characters to better their approaches.

November 6th: Khalil, Hannah, and Stephen got together to run through the play and work on how the lines flowed together. They helped each other go through the lines to aid in memorization.

November 9th: We looked at our set this time and decided on what things would be necessary to have during our pseudo production on the 30th. We decided that we needed a desk and a chair or a desk/chair combination for Trotsky, a book for Mrs. Trotsky to hold while she’s reading her encyclopedia, something for Trotsky to hold up for a skull, perhaps a picture of a skull, a bell to ring, and a pen for Trotsky.

November 11th: We worked on blocking today, running through play with scripts with the non-actors helping as directors of the play. They helped some of our movements be less awkward.

November 13th: Khalil, Hannah and Stephen ran through lines together and helped with memorizing them and everyone got together and discussed what we had found in our research about our various parts and how we were going to incorporate that into our papers and how that influenced the concept of the piece.

November 14th: Khalil, Hannah and Stephen worked on going through the play several times to keep memorizing and getting a feel for the characters.

November 16th: We all got together and talked about what the actors had discovered through their acting and running through the play about the characters themselves and how that was discovered fit into the general concept of the play. We also discussed how each individual was going to go about writing their own papers and their general findings about the personal requirements so that they would all form a coherent project. Khalil, Hannah, and Stephen also rehearsed the play.

November 18th: We finalized our discussion of the group responsibilities, checked the progress of them, and reminded everyone of the due date so that we could do some final editing on them. Khalil, Hannah, and Stephen also rehearsed the play.

November 28th: We did a final rehearsal and worked out some kinks in the play itself as well as went over everyone’s papers.