Sunday’s public performance, March 29, 2009

To Do:
Flannel on top of strike signs.
Chavez, I need to tear up your new jacket.
Distress shawls for TOMBS.

Ruth, watch women and poor
Vendors, when asking society woman if they want to buy anything, tip hats to them
Brandon, louder
Roth, be more abrasive start off lowkey and hit your height when the coughing bothers you. Everyone react to Roth, negatively if that is your character, but you have to react in some way.
Margaret, your lines seem rehearsed. Say them differently.
Anya, take your hat, lose the purse.
Roger, laugh louder in the first union scene.
Lannon, great job with the accent – look at toilet
Joe, gotta have an accent.
Eyetie is pronounced IIIII TIIIII. In Far and away
Bridget on Stolle – Thugs need to react more
Brandon, in the dance scene, all movements MUST be big. Rehearse with Alina on Monday and I will work with you.
TRANSITIONS – Move in diagonals.
Joe, told her. Hit the d on told.
2nd Union scene, Roger, have a muffler, gloves, etc. The shirt should be unbuttoned in the second scene so that we can see the layers.
Cohen, sounded Southern.
Men in all scenes except for Roger need to dirty hands.
Roger as the thug, you need an accent.
After the rain, look at the sky, women, not all at once and see that you do not need your shawls.
“Patched clothes” move more downstage.
“I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.”-- Alan Arkin In the comments, write what this means to you.
Violet, do not hesitate with your lines. Step on them.
Julie and Alina, recognize others and you may go to them before assuming your position on the platform. Can either of you come in URS and cross CSR
All actresses, including Clara, fade in the cheeks.
Society girls, Lenore, bring in the cape with the idea that you are donating it. Then you do not have to take your coat off.
MURMUR before the hearing, so it sounds as though the judge has been talking.
Roth, use the cane more – p oint it at the girls.
Chavez, watch the word “either.”
Judge, deeper voice
ESQUIRE, then look proud of yourself.
Judge, keep your feet still.
Windbag…… murmur, then gavel and dead silence.
Remove prisoners, MURMUR louder.
Murmur after the hearing.
In the tomb, Clara and girls help Rosie to a reclining place.
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”Oscar Wilde Interpret this in the blog comment.
Roth, given me and Rosie….. hit your chest with the doll.
DISTRESS Shawls
Roth – Remember your power and gain momentum when saying that the girls are trying to take it away. Then almost crumple when you say Rosie may come back again.
DREAM
Joe, walk deliberately to your place with eyes locked on Anya. Roth, your eyes are locked on Anya.
FIRE IS HOT.
TOMB
It is hard getting up. The cold is in your bones. You haven’t had any movement. You are exhausted and starving. YOU ARE WEAK. Move that way.
Bridget to the audience after Clara’s death.
Girls, remember you have been in the tombs and cannot move. Help each other. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Joe, take all tags out of your jacket.
On “And died on the picket line,” let’s try Julie with that line. Move down front.
Ms. Border has said this, but We need to see ANGUISHED faces/ TRIUMPHANT faces, nevertheless. WE NEED TO SEE EXPReSSION.
Tomorrow night: Rehearsal is at 7PM. Tuesday it is at 8. Thursday night we will go over the play once if we do it under 40; if not, we will do it again. Friday morning, be here at 7:30. Our official rehearsal is Friday morning at 8AM.
PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS. THIS IS A CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS TIMES & IS A DISTRICT DECISION:
Friday, the directors' meeting is at 1PM.
The first play begins at 2PM. Have your parents there by 2:45.
The order of performance is as follows:
1. Post
2. Shallowater
3. Roosevelt
4. Denver City
YOU MAY NOT LEAVE BEFORE CRITIQUES.

Love you guys. Rehearse your accents. Think about your characters.

Judge's critiques

Opening was good.
Technical aspects – good
Good transitions
Liked dancing
Good accents
Women played the environment well
Drawn into the world and cared about the people
Judge felt characters with no names need distinct personalities
Guys playing teamsters are not low class enough
Union scene – men are not belligerent enough. Attitude is needed
Lenore and Violet – more in terms of shock when appearing at the strike site. Shocked that they do not want your help
Court scene. Judge more arrogant
Needs more presence
Tombs – girls struggle to dance
End is too sudden ?????? talk about this tomorrow
Cohen, pompous indignation at end
Build the end more – see tomorrow
Thugs more menacing. Embrace thugery. Be more surprised when Bridget jumps on his back
Anya – get purse off. Use hat as a distraction
Ruth –accent
Roth – hat? – use a cap
Roth, more of a struggle with letting emotion out.
Joe, listen at all times
Lenore, use round tones. Be elegant
Patrick, lower class

District Contest

Friday, April 3, 2009
The order of performance was determined with all district directors present at a meeting in August. The shows that have advanced from zone contests will perform in the following order:

Post (2) Romeo and Juliet
Shallowater (1) To See The Stars
Roosevelt (2) Wit
Denver City (1) The Runner Stumbles

The schedule for the day will be:

8:00 am Shallowater rehearsal
9:15 am Post rehearsal
10:30 am Roosevelt rehearsal
11:45 am Denver City rehearsal
1:00 pm Directors’ Meeting in the choir room just off stage left
1:50 pm Set Post
2:00 pm “Romeo and Juliet”
2:50 pm “To See the Stars”
3:40 pm “Wit”
4:30 pm “The Runner Stumbles”
6:00 pm Awards presentation
6:15 pm Critiques begin

Critiques will be delivered to non-advancing shows first, followed by the advancing shows. Distance from Shallowater will determine the order after the decisions are made by the critic. Distances are approximately: Post-50 miles; Shallowater-na; Roosevelt-30miles; Denver City-80 miles.

If you have any questions regarding the contest, please contact Gary Davis, contest manager at:
(806) 592-5950 office
(806) 592-9559 home
(806) 592-1130 cell
gary.davis@dcisd.org

OAP rehearsal is at 8PM Tuesday night. The official rehearsal time is Wednesday from 7-8PM. Contest is Thursday.

Remember to THINK about the play, the people who made such a difference in all of our lives.
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

Contests

Zone contest
March 26
Zone 1 Shallowater Judge -Susan Loughran
Directors’ Meeting at 12 noon
First play begins at 1PM
Littlefield will practice on March 25 at 2:30
Abernathy will practice on March 25 at 4:45
Shallowater will practice at 7Pm on March 25.
Denver City will practice on the morning of March 26 at 10:30.

District Contest Judge - Deb Shaw
April 3 at Shallowater
Directors’ Meeting at 12 noon
First play begins at 1PM

The order of plays for zone is as follows:
Order of performance
Zone 1
Abernathy
Shallowater
Denver City
Littlefield

I know that Wednesday evening performance is a problem. However, with the new contest manager, we have to have that time to set our stage. He returns to Denver City following our rehearsal.

IMPORTANT

It is almost C Day (Competition)

We have rehearsals for the following days at the end of spring-break.
Friday, March 20 9AM until 2PM. (Keri’s birthday – bring money for lunch)
Saturday, March 21 –We will go from 8-10AM and from 4PM until 9PM.
Sunday, March 22 – Public performance $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for students and children
Monday, March 23 -6:30-9:30;

Tuesday, March 24 -6:30 in my room until the 1A people have left. We will stay until 9:30;

Wednesday Morning March 25, after softball practice until 8:30.

Contest is Thursday, March 26.

Have a safe and fun spring break. See you guys on Friday, March 20.

Jay Brown's and everyone else's critiques - Monday

Jay Brown’s & everyone’s critiques
· Ruth, louder at the beginning
· During monologues, be solid. Know who you are. Grab something to define your character.
· First four lines - women must be stronger. Do something physical.
· Women must be physical and strong in the beginning. I don’t know about angrier in the beginning with the first four lines. I think… proud…. We accomplished something no one else could, and the world can be changed by a small group of people.
· Strengthen accents.
· Extend and strengthen accents; be physical and strong. Create the atmosphere.
· Women, be angrier. How do they feel – needs to be clearer
· How do the men feel about the women? Think about this because most of it depends who your characters are at the beginning.
· Roth, “You girls…” to Bridget
· Don’t forget the rain. It makes your feet cold, wring your shawls and end of your skirts out.
· Transitions must have purpose, so move as you would in real life.
· Need to know who Nathan, Brandon, and Lannon are.
· Light focusing on the fight. Pop pop instead of slow fades. . Stronger reaction from girls. Bridget, jump on Stolle’s back. Stolle, grope BIGGER.
· Pump up Fine’s been paid.
· Colder in Cohen’s meeting, men.
· Seconds, should be delivered differently and with excitement
· Keep chanting through transition to next scene.
· Society women, a hanky. See the difference with shoulders back. See the aristocratic manners throughout.
· Lenore, move toward Anya when you tell her about your experience.
· Judge, more pompous.
· Roth, play with cane more.
· Tombs stink. Reblock this scene. We need to see the society girls’ reactions to the stinky tomb.
· Bigger tomb singing. Focus on Clara. No crate. Let Clara join in the singing. Don’t lift Clara tenderly.
· Characters, add gestures, movements that show who you are and how unique you are.
· Build the scene, end it, and go on to the next scene.
· The third person from the left is as important as the lead.
· Roth’s first time on stage – monologue gives the audience insight into his character.
· Clean up ballet
· Judge, push through
· More gestures, Roth
· 9 more nights – desperate
· Joe and Anya, more left stage.
· Bridget, accent is off
· Violet, louder
· Where is the mink?
· Esquire
· Sit up straight in monologue, Roth.
· Ruth, warm the shawl, then put on Clara
· Reblock tombs scene
· 4 sec. of quiet as Anya stirs,then everyone dances
· Screaming is the signal for Zack to pick up Clara
· Before Joe makes the announcement, Zack whistle. Joe pretends to whistle.
· Must hear to see the stars.
· At the end with Joe’s announcement, Anya run up to him. Joe twirls her around.
· Stolle and Cohen are too much alike. You hold your mouth the same way. Vocally, you are different.
· Organize your PROPS and COSTUMES before the play on left or right stage. No one else is responsible for your things.
· Roth needs a larger shirt.

SUNDAY's REHEARSAL March 15

Critiques Sunday, March 08, 2009
Bring a lunch tomorrow.
Mendi – 1st time
Good job selling, Roger
$10. fro six – anya
Go out on strike - more laughing from men
Joe, pigheaded – more reaction and hold her back
Give me a sign – say toward audience
Good laugh, Rog
Matron, come out more
Joe, Jacket and scarf after jail scene
Roger –Cooper Union –point with upstage hand
Rog – good showing cold
Bridget – only one out of meeting showing it was raining
Murmuring was too fake
Trial, come down more center
Public nuisance
4th wall – Everyone
Nor eason to put you in jail – out
Liked Roth left stage
Good face in tombs
Judge, get out earlier stand firm
Light on Roth
Mendi – 2nd time
Shirtwaist -say out
Bridget fanned Clara – good job
Ruth, good change in face – You’re a dreamer
Nathan, good laughing and giving paper back
Clara – good hands in monologue. ALL IMMIGRANTS – remember you are used to using your hands, so use your hands to show what you are talking about . Thinking – point to head or temples, NYC point out
Nathan and clara in jail – good
Bridget – RUsso
Bridget, have apurse in union
Slap Cohen in chest with Strike paper – Cohen, wad and throw.
Violet, take of behind
Dream dance was better
Need to figure out a way for girls to have backs to audience. After getting out of jail, all girls face back who are named - all others face toward audience.
Much better second time.
More notes
BRANDON, enunciate. Hit all consonants hard – exaggerate them
Work on making seconds different.
Kara and Alli,
Stolle, good chest garbage
Good jail scene – Ruth and Bridget
Roger, point with other hand
Lenore, pull hat back.
Roth, good monologue
Lines missed
Brandon, pg. 4
Anya, 6,17,29, 19
Bridget 15, 22, 32
Stolle, 16
Joe, 17, 29
Roger, 21, 23, 38
Roth, 24
Ruth 26
Kylee, 26
Get’s
Roger, Kylee, Johnny, Julie
Couch’s
Kalyn and Kenzi – jobs – take the white off of Julie’s shawl.
Need gloves.
We need orange in Lenore’s hat
Black gloves for society women
Remember to wear the mink.
Chin up society women – Better job, second time
Chavez, slow down still.
Roth, louder and enunciate. Better 2nd time
Dirty immigrants was better 2nd, but still needs to sound more repugnant
Anya, good job with kerchief and apron. It might be easier to take off kerchief when you say – I’m tired…..
Lannon, good job
Joe and Union man Roger, great job.
Roger, excellent job being believable.
I love the arm wrestling, but slow it down. Really, a good idea
Alli and Kara, First time, we were at 8:30 when Joe tells Anya she is a dreamer.
Joe, much better on entrances.
A & K, we were at 13:45 rich husband first time.
Shelbi, need a shawl in the rain.
Cohen, good job – Just who is Anya Rosen
Roger, throw the hat with left hand
A & K, we were at 20:02 with society women
Stolle, missed Esquire twice
We need hat pins for Molly and Shelbi
A & K – first time through we were at 26:13 when judge says Defendants rise
Joe, we need to see more realization of what is in store for the women when the judge says Blackwell’s Island
Remember, we need to see the leg in the tombs.
IT is COLD in the tombs
SHIvER
Society girls, take off overskirts.
Dancing girls, move more to right stage so you are not blocking Anya and Clara
Watch the fire, it can catch you and burn you up. Move it more downstage, but use the hem of your dress to move it if it needs to be moved. IT is hot.
A & K – Strikers released first time -33:56
Roth, fix the belt.
Even if we lose, quicker.
Say girls’ names differently each time.
2nd time A & K, I think I would use the times during the second show.
Roth, tip hat to girls on entrance. Remember NYC is out there somewhere.
Good job – dirty immigranty
ANya and all girls, use more gestures
A & K – 2ned time – 4:51 “I heard all my life.”
Cap on Joe in first scene. Tip to ANya and introduce yourself.
2nd time 7:47 – Scrub other people’s clothes
10:05 – Look it up
12:20 – So you tried it on your own.
Matron, great job.
Bridget, look at the matron over your right shoulder
14:07 – Different life – Joe
15;07 – County Monahan
Bridget – RUUUUUSo
Tomorrow, all girls wear hose – white or black
Anya and Joe shake hands following getting out of jail. Anya extends her hand first
20:23 society girls’ entrance
STAND UP, don’t lean, judge. Take off hat at the beginning of the hearing.
ESQUIRE
Judge, stand up straight.
Violet – Step on lines – Then we’ll give you….
26:48 – Defendants please rise
Roth, take hat off at one point in your monologue. Keep your head up.
Sit up straight, Roth,
Don’t keep moving the fire, girls.
Need blankets in the tombs.
Girls move right during scene so we can see Clara and Anya
34:36 – Strikers released.
You are colder at the end.
Brandon, you need a cap as the news boy
38:49

Revised Rehearsal Schedule

Rehearsal Schedule – From now on, do not ask me when rehearsal is over. If you don’t want to be here, stay home. I will tell you if you are leaving earlier than planned.
Next week
Sunday, March 8 – rehearsal 2-4:30; Clinic on Monday (Bring your lunch and eat in my room) – 10:30-2:30; Monday -6:30-9:30; Tuesday - 6:30-9:30; Wednesday morning after softball.
Friday, March 20 9AM until 2PM.
Saturday, March 21 –We will go from 8-10AM and from 4PM until 9PM.
Sunday, March 22 – Public performance
Monday, March 23 -6:30-9:30; Tuesday, March 24 -6:30 in my room until the 1A people have left. We will stay until 9:30; Wednesday Morning after softball practice until 8:30. Contest is Thursday.
***** We have not rehearsed setting up yet.
Think about what you can do to make your character/s better. Think what you can do to make the play better whether it is offering constructive criticism, helping with costumes, painting, etc. We only get one chance March 26.

• Things we need
  Roth vest – dark brown
  Different shirt for stick man
  Distress aprons, barrels, broom, boxes and baskets
  Fix Velcro or something for doll.
  Kara’s critiques
  Nathan, do not say your “Let’s get em Stolle,” where we can hear you. It is supposed to be a murmur.
  Sit up straight.
  BIG MEAN FACES
  Men react when she says she might as well be back in Ireland.
  Good reactions after judge announces punishment
  Love Roth on Left stage
  BETTER KISS, you guys! – Ask Kara which kiss she is referring to
  Stage business – we have to have it. All the judges are talking about Meisner, and our fourth judge is a Meisner expert. You have to have constant movement on lines and gestures.
  Clara, good tombs scene
  Bridget, do the nose flick thing when you say Mighty Johansen
  Chavez and Zack, decide when you are getting Clara and do that.
  Joe – GET yourself a real paycheck
  Remember to hang up costumes after Kylee and I get them listed
  Roth, your sister told us she didn’t have any family.
  Rehearsal Schedule – From now on, do not ask me when rehearsal is over. If you don’t want to be here, stay home. I will tell you if you are leaving earlier than planned.
  Next week
  Sunday, March 8 – rehearsal 2-4:30; Clinic on Monday (Bring your lunch and eat in my room) – 10:30-2:30; Monday -6:30-9:30; Tuesday - 6:30-9:30; Wednesday morning after softball.
  Friday, March 20 (Think about this and we will vote what time)
  Saturday, March 21 – Plan on staying all day. Get here by 9AM, and we will leave that evening. We will go into town to eat together for lunch.
  Sunday, March 22 – Public performance
  Monday, March 23 -6:30-9:30; Tuesday, March 24 -6:30 in my room until the 1A people have left. We will stay until 9:30; Wednesday Morning after softball practice until 8:30. Contest is Thursday.
  ***** We have not rehearsed setting up yet.
  Think about what you can do to make your character/s better. Think what you can do to make the play better whether it is offering constructive criticism, helping with costumes, painting, etc. We only get one chance March 26.

David Steven's replacement

We will have a clinic Monday here with Jay Brown. I chose him because of his music theatre background. We go on at 12 and end at 2. I will get you out of class at 11. Bring your lunch. I know it is not as much fun as eating out, but time is crunching.
I have listed the credits of Mr. Adair. He is knowledgeable about Meisner - which is truth in acting. He will be hard on diction. As I find more about him, I will post it.
Aaron Adair, (Southeastern Oklahoma State )
Actor with 30 years in theatre; studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York (Sanford Meisner Approach); Certified to teach the Meisner Approach by the Neighborhood Playhouse. Extensive background in Musical theatre. Research in acting and Shakespearean Studies. Gradutate and undergraduate work in Oklahoma, Texas and California. Taught high school, community college and university levels in theatre and film in Texas and Colorado.

SNYDER!

We can't go to Snyder Monday because by the time I got back to Newt to tell him we could, someone had booked it. Johnny, when do you go to tennis? If you are not gone Thursday, we may still have a shot at Perry. Right now, he is willing to do anything to see us.

More thoughts

• Newt called and said he has an opening at Snyder Monday, the 9th. We need to let him know asap, so check your schedules. This will help us, particularly if we cannot go to Perry's clinic because of basketball playoffs (we are glad they are so successful).
• Something to keep up - Society girls, keep taking a beat while you think how you can prove to Judge Powell, you should be treated as the strikers.
• Roth, can you move left stage to give your first monologue? It was pointed out to me that we do not have any monologues DSL. Look over your shoulder so that no one overhears you or sees you with Rosie's doll. Also, in your last series of sentences, move more left stage. If you can sit DSL, and walk and talk - I know I have told you never to do that, but you are that good an actor that you can do this. Then sit on the bench and be more conversational. Before the end - reach out to one of the women strikers as a peace offering and be rebuffed. Let's try that at the beginning of rehearsal on Thursday.
• Love you guys!

After speaking to Kara, Molly, etc.

• The fight/dance scene - The movement needs to reflect the music. It crescendos to the final BAM. The movements should crescendo to the final BAM. Keri and ALina, work on this for Thursday.
• The ballet scene - the leg up doesn't work. It doesn't fit the period and the length of the dress hides the leg. See Kara and Alli for changes.
• As I said in the previous blog, I want Clara to have a coughing fit at the end of the jail scene - the nine more days results in the episode. Soooooo, not to be predictable. Let's keep Ruth running toward the end of the stage. I liked the way it worked during public performance.
• Following Clara's death and before Joe's entrance, there needs to be a light change and music signifying time passing. Do we have this in place? Also, the girls need to have different attitudes toward Joe. Some excited - hoping for news... others sad. But DIFFERENT
• Nathan, in your newsboy lines add and change, Pictures inside.... Thugs swingin at strikers ... girls in tombs.
• So far, that's it.

Thursday evening, we will do a speed through. Then, we will time the play. Hopefully, we will have it under 40. Things to think about.

• The original play has the girls saying the first four lines in the dark. Then, the village scene. What do you think?
• IF we do have more time, after Roth says, "And don't forget what I said," exiting into the factory. Anya says: Every morning we walk up those rickety stairs. We sit at those machines. Backs bent, heads down. Bridget says, "Mouths shut." Ruth, "Maybe we're all cowards." Then Anya says, "Maybe that's because we haven't given ourselves the chance to be anything else." I'm tired of waking up.....
• Before the thugs show up, the girls are excited - giddy with excitement about the strike. We need a contrast here - happiness/excitement vs. fear when the thugs come. There is not enough fear when they show up.
• In the jail, when Clara says, "Nine more nights...." "Clara's words end in a coughing spasm." Girls are kneeling and concerned about Clara when the matron comes in.
• In the hearing scene, after Roth says, "Mr. Jonathan Stolle," I want Stolle to say,"Esquire." It was in the script. I don't know how I missed it.
• In the tombs scene, Anya, fall on your knees - looking out at God when you say "But I thought I knew. Watch the girls with wonder as they begin dancing.
• Joe, cut "But it's only a chance, Anya." It doesn't make sense.
• Roth, say at the end. I know what they're fightin for....justice beat fairness beat and a place in this world. EVERYONE MAKE NOTE OF THIS Because it affects the chanting.

Please let me know when tennis is over on Thursday, so we can make plans. ALINA, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, March 2

• Bottles and gloves
• At the beginning, Chavez and Zack, stand differently.
• No heads down in the beginning. Freeze in a motion
• Bridget, faster with your line. Speak up in the middle of the hubbub
• Slower on lines, Chavez.
• Brandon, enunciate.
• Clara, step on pay envelope. Vary rate
• Anya, center stage - yes, you were, but I didn't want you to forget.
• Men, It's hot! Men didn't react
• Zack, Brandon, or Nathan, look back at Anya.
• Drop purse. Joe, attempt to get it, then Anya brushes you out of the way.
• Clear off streets - 10 minutes
• 9 more nights - tear our hearts out - you cannot endure 9 more nights.
• COLD AFTER JAIL. Women did not react.
• You've got a chance. Bridget, you are hopeful
• Cohen, use hands
• Ruth, sit by Teresa, then see that Clara is by herself and move to sit by her.
• Cohen, REFUSE
• Don't go wastin' it. 19 minutes
• Brandon, enunciate line about children
• Trial, great job of stage work - Joe and Bridget
• Silence - 24-25 minutes
• Lannon - Wouldn't let - Enunciate
• Scream - 30 minutes
• Worst of it - Ruth, we can't hear you
• STAGE BUSINESS IN TOMBS
• Take what you get - Get up angrier
• Music down in Clara's speech
• Ruth, great job with Clara's shawl.
• Red light off Julie
• Newsboys freeze when the girl strikers are speaking and moving. Freeze with the judge.
• Alina is right. Julie, freeze with the boys.
• Stage business in tombs
• Stolle, don't come in until your line when the men are frozen.

Alli and Kara's notes

• Better on yours
• Chavez, Immigrant - N WORD
• Roth, say "Wherever I like" dirty and slow
• Agnes, you need a shawl during cold scenes
• Can someone freeze looking cold!
• Freeze with mouths open
• Cohen, look annoyed when girls cheer after welcome.
• It's cold in union meeting - Brandon had sleeves rolled up and Teresa had shawl around neck.
• Joe, better diction
• Lenore and Violet need to enter sooner.
• Lenore, don't sigh when talking - ask Kara. Sighing is poison on stage
• Roth, Stolle, Brandon, be cold when society girls are talking to factory girls
• Good job, cold and shaky Clara
• Before dying, Clara, Gasp and strain with head up
• Stay in the story, everyone. Ask Kara
• Good job taking hats off indoors.
• Heard added words when murmuring
• Volet was blocked when insulting judge
• Lenore, good reaction when judge makes decision
• \Bridget, good job during Roth monologue
• Great crazy girl
• Anya, be careful about reaching too much for Roth. It looked like you didn't want to kiss Joe.
• Work on kiss
• Figure out Ruth tomb situation - ask K & A. If you have read this much, write "Only when I share his thoughts, his hopes, his dreams will I be permitted to slide into the skin of my character."
• Bridget was blocked and could not see her reaction when Clara died
• Joe, good job seeing Clara
• Joe - wanted jew to keep fighting
• Joe, good dad scene
• Anya, be creful about blocking your face when you wipe it up your shawl?
• Julie, look at starve in fresh air. You added some.
• Study cuts
• all dancers need to see ALli's video. Be slower and BIGGER during slow movements - faster and sharper during fast movements. You are getting sloppy.

Sunday's performance, March 1

Congratulations on a job well done!

1. You stepped on lines at the beginning, but it was too fast. Remember that you win or lose your audience in the first five minutes.
2. GETS. Everyone concentrate on diction.
3. When the society girls say the first line, be sure that you have stepped on the previous line. Anya says,"! And they make six dollars a week!" Immediately, say,"A few days...." Ruth will step on the line and say,"Maybe we could...." Do not lose momentum. Violet, remember that you are in sympathy, but you are doubtful that women can win. Society women, be looking at the striker scene longer and jump right in after Anya's line.
4. Anya, give your monologue DCS, and it will be easier to get to the first union meeting.
5. In Lannon's scene, Brandon, Zack, and Nathan, exit in different areas. Also, one of you look back at the ones left in the meeting and shake your head.
6. Joe, keep the beat when you say "and you're telling me.
7. Thugs be as rough as you were yesterday, but no rougher. Women, the struggle was good, especially the deep breathing.
8. The rain was great. Be as affected by the weather in each scene as you were in the rain scene.
9. Cooper Union - 2 words. Shelbi, don't go to Cohen's scene. Be a society woman with Violet and be in the background watching the women return to the strike scene. That way you will be into the scene and Bridget can deliver her first line quickly.
10. Brandon, step on the line previous to your's.
11. Bridget, move your monologue DCS, more to the left.
12. Roger, as the striker, your anger was evident. Keep it at this level.
13. Joe, keep watching Anya throughout the play.
14. Interaction among men is better in all scenes. We need more.
15. Society women scene, Clara, nod to the society women, when you say "They're asking for a chance."
16. Roth, be careful that you lose the fourth wall when you are in the background. Do not look out into the audience. Also, remember that you want power. We need to see that from the beginning to the end.... that you are constantly torn between wanting power and wanting to do the right thing.
17. Previous to the hearing scene, Julie, Alina, Zack, Brandon, Nathan, and Jaxson, continue coming out as before. Roth, have a newspaper and show it to Nathan and say your line.
18. Joe and Roth, be louder throughout the play.
19. Lenore and Violet, lower voices with insults.
20. In the hearing scene, let Stolle grab the coats and hats.
21. Joe, take the bench off after the hearing scene.
22. Crazy woman, point at Clara once, then withdraw into yourself when no one pays attention to you.
23. Ruth was the best at reacting and listening. Everyone come up to her level.
24. Get.
25. We could not see Joe see Clara.
26. Keep the sadness and try to cry,Joe, when you talk about your father.
27. Clara, struggle for breath. Physically, move your upper body up, gasp for air, then collapse.
28. Anya - I can't speak... step on lines.
29. Julie and Alina, move slowly as everyone else is. Brent, keep the red light off them.
30. Roger, keep your head up in the last scene. You and Jaxson both need to keep your heads up.
31. I have changed this so it is not so abrupt.
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32. Judge - We’re into February now, and the girls are still at it.
    Stolle - Micks marchin with Eyeties! Rich marchin with the poor.
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33. Judge -Go home… get married!
    Stolle -We beat ‘em, and they’re still at it!
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34. Roth, don't back up.
35. Roth -Rosie walked the picket line. She got sent to the Tombs. She’d been stuck in a cell with PAUSE Anya Rosen, Lenore Van Meer, Violet Vandercort, Bridget Feeney, Ruth Stein, Clara.
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36. Roth -The warden said she wasn’t in the Tombs no more. “So where’s Rosie?
    Potters Field. Your sister told us she didn’t have any family. BEAT I know what they’re fighting for.
    Roth look at the girls and join in, resigned.
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Tonight we have practice from 6:30- 8. We will rehearse the last part, then go through the entire play. Alli and Kara will retape the stage. Tonight we will rehearse setting and striking. Thursday, we will rehearse late - 6:30-9PM. We will run through the play twice, timed and set and strike. If we have the costumes before Sunday, we will have a paid public performance. We will have rehearsal on Sunday, Monday, and if we are still not in the playoffs, we will go to Tulia to be with Perry. It will be a LATE night.

In my reading this week, the stage director, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, used to speak to the students and referred to his lectures as "pie-jaw." In his native Ireland, "pie-jaw" was the expression given to the "good advice" that grandmothers used to give to children. Consider each critique given as "pie-jaw" whether it is from me or someone else. Theatre is expected to reveal Universe and awaken the spirit. Somewhere during the course of the performance, the spectator experiences the "Great Aha!" where he sees the actors onstage, and the character within is illuminated, awakened, enlightened, elevated, and changed. Magic is performed. This is what we are shooting for. Everyone helps in this process - whether it is Dylan with a suggestion for Roth and the newspaper, or whether it is Brent showing us where to focus as an audience member. Everyone is important, and I cannot tell you how important every person is. Understudies, be watching everything that goes on because you will be left with the legacy when the seniors leave. Love you guys! Thanks for including me yesterday.