Jared commented about Canadian accents - Words like sorry and worry make an oar sound like soary. House and couch sould like ew in the middle like cewch or hewse. Keep working, Jared.
Cris brought up something as well as Nathan - Nathan said that some of the workers ended up with factory deafness and that there were a lot of illnesses and ailments because of the heat - please read his comment.
Cris remarked that in places that are loud, we shout a lot. This NEEDS to be done in the factory.
Savannah said that the gate scene needs to be more regimented - perhaps a beat as they exit.
The welfare scene is cold. - reflect the environment throughout the play.
Ty pointed out that everyone needs to begin doing accents. You will never become better unless you try- as painful as it may be.
We're almost done blocking the whole play!!!! That means time to get busy and have fun! And get ready for our clinics that are in February. Accents are really getting better; Savannah and Graham ya'lls italian accents are coming a long nicely! Ty, you being serious is funny but great and beautiful. Ladies remember to cross legs at the ankles and hold your knees together. The workers in the back working is very good stage business and it adds to the depth of the stage showing them work while someting about the stike is going on down stage.
ReplyDeleteWay to go guys! Everyone is doing fabuous. Now that we are almost done blocking the play we get to move on to the fun part. I completely agree with Michelle, Savannah and Graham's accents sound awesome!! Let's try to goof around less. Our sillyness was extremely frustrating to a lot of people including Mrs. Couch. Lines have to be memorized by January 20th so get one the ball! It is extremely important to memorize your lines so that we can be focusing on more importnat things, like working towards STATE!
ReplyDeleteFrank should be tougher on Reg. He started working at a young age so work is all he knows. Also he wants Reg to be able to work as hard as he can so feels that the union is a cop out.
ReplyDeleteAll of the factory workers should be more crude people. These are lower working class physical Laborers. They don't have the manners and cleanliness we are used to, medicine was bad and quality of life was far lower. Life expectancy was lower 60's in comparison to today's mid 80's. These people where crude by today's standards and we need to see that
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ReplyDeleteWe could do that if we used the words from the script. I think that's a great idea. Figure out which words you want to say, and we will find a website that will help us.
All of the characters need to change in every aspect. I think we are just going through the motions right now, which is understandable considering we have only been working on our play for a week, but we need to feel what the characters felt and put that feeling into actions to express the feeling to the audience. ~Paige Williams
ReplyDeleteGood job guys we are getting along this play quite nicely. One thing I want to say is that every line you have effects the play in some way. With that being said each line needs to be filled with some kind of an emotion. How would your character say it? How are you feeling at that point? We all must add emotions to our character and this play in order to advance, but good job guys and keep up the hard work.
ReplyDeleteWith our first clinic a mere month away its hard to believe that we just started. With the blocking nearly done we can soon start polishing everyone's characters to the point that the judge will think your names are Reg and Frank etc... i think that the side lights will very instrumental in making the stage look like a steel mill especially with the scene where Billy falls while getting bricks it will also help add more dimension to the parts of the set that we don't lights for also as Carson said in a recent comment these are blue collar workers they don't have the manners we have today.
ReplyDeleteOn Jared's comments about the Canadian accents, I cannot even attempt that accent for the life of me. When we first were told that the actors would have to learn those accents, I, just jokingly around, tried to do this accent, but with the advice Jared said it is actually easier.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the failed strikes before the 1005 strike the employs knew what happend to strikers. I feel like reg has to spearhead the strike because all of the members of previous strikes where gone. So the stakes are much more real to these people than any other group who goes on strike.
ReplyDeleteI think one vital component we need when working with human props is to actually believe they are props and not people. The "props" must show no emotion and be stock still. And the actor interacting with this "prop" must not realize they are people. I honestly dont think the human ladder will work. It hardly looks like a ladder and it's very shaky. I don't think we will get the message across because this "prop" is too distracting to the audience. It doesnt help with the scene.
ReplyDeletePhones in the 1940s were not much like the phone today. They were rotary phones so you could dial but you could still call the operator which was very common because rotary technology was very easy to mess up with when dialing plus if you were calling long distance you had to use long distance because dialing was still in its early years. This is Parker's for Friday the eleventh
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ReplyDeleteTues. Jan. 8 for that Monday's rehearsal-
An estimated 920,741 employees worked per year in the steel industry in Canada and the United States in the 1930's. Over 8% of these steelworkers died per year because of the health risks of the jobs. Suprisingly, 75% of the deaths were due to disease, rathter than accident, including carbon-monoxide poisoning, kidney failure, heart disease, pneumonia, silicon poisoning, conjuctivitis that spreads to the brains, and other lethal infections. Although not all disease gotten from steel workers wer deadly, such as paralysis (particulary in the arms), heat stroke, "hot mill cramps", blindness, "steel worker's" deafness, as well as many others.
Fri. Jan. 11 for THursday's rehearsal-
I believ that we should have children throughout the play, because as Billy says it affects everybody in Canada which would include the children. Also since their parents are so invlovled in the strike they would have a great deal of influence and believe just as their parents did, demonstrated in an early cut of the script in which Nate's son was beaten for calling some of the other children's father a scab.
Today Jan. 14 for Sunday's rehearsal-
I think in the scene where Nate is getting beaten more than just Louis should stop the men from beating him. It seems unlikely that strong, tough steel workers in the prime of their physical life would run away because one man came to stop them. Even if we get the girls to rush and save Nate, the Stelco men would probably continue beating him as most men, in this time period espicially, that no "dainty little girl" could ever beat them in anything, especially physical confrontations.
I think that we need to work on accents more. I could hear people slipping in and out of their accents and if I didn't know the play I would have been very confused.
ReplyDeleteFun fact...girls hair in the 1940's were curly that's what was popular back than... I think it would be good that our girls hair were curly
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