Sanitise rehearsals have started again and I am so delighted to be back working on this show. I have missed performing it! We have had a break of 4 months and now it is time to get Sanitise ready to hit the road. I have to admit I was a little nervous going into rehearsal that I wouldn’t be able to remember any of it! The show became second nature to me in August, to the point where I wasn’t even thinking what came next on stage. The action of the play was so embedded in me that I could really live in the moment on stage and really feel what the character was experiencing in her strange wee bathroom! It was great fun! However, after 4 months doing other things this isn’t so easy…
So how do you revisit a play with no words? Our first task was to remind ourselves of the ‘think script’ which outlines each individual thought rather than lines of text. We rewrote the whole play based on the characters thought narrative. With each individual thought comes an action and/or facial expression. When we were creating the show last year we put a great deal of attention on clarifying each thought so that each thought could be read clearly on my face or through my movement on stage. This was quite a long and sometimes difficult process as every raise of my eyebrow was scrutinised and placed carefully within the show. However, this hard work has proved incredibly useful now in remembering the show as the thoughts and actions/facial expressions go hand-in-hand. Each on-stage thought automatically creates the facial expressions we worked so hard on last summer. So, it hasn’t been all that difficult to remember. (Phew).
It has been really fun revisiting the show and having a laugh at how silly it is! With each rehearsal there is at least one moment of freestyle dancing to Danny Krass’ fantastic soundtrack. Who doesn’t want to come in to work and get down to Barry White? “Can’t get enough of your love, babe…”
Mel x
So how do you revisit a play with no words? Our first task was to remind ourselves of the ‘think script’ which outlines each individual thought rather than lines of text. We rewrote the whole play based on the characters thought narrative. With each individual thought comes an action and/or facial expression. When we were creating the show last year we put a great deal of attention on clarifying each thought so that each thought could be read clearly on my face or through my movement on stage. This was quite a long and sometimes difficult process as every raise of my eyebrow was scrutinised and placed carefully within the show. However, this hard work has proved incredibly useful now in remembering the show as the thoughts and actions/facial expressions go hand-in-hand. Each on-stage thought automatically creates the facial expressions we worked so hard on last summer. So, it hasn’t been all that difficult to remember. (Phew).
It has been really fun revisiting the show and having a laugh at how silly it is! With each rehearsal there is at least one moment of freestyle dancing to Danny Krass’ fantastic soundtrack. Who doesn’t want to come in to work and get down to Barry White? “Can’t get enough of your love, babe…”
Mel x