the rehearsal process

Over the weeks we have been rehearsing different sections of the first act. I found this quite complicated as I wasnt really sure what to do with my character . Unfortunately over the weeks i feel like i havent had much direction as in what my character does or how she acts - so i've just had to roll with it. 


For the majority of scenes i am in I will be at a table in the common room with other patients from the institute , with of course my twin Delia. as i mentioned before we are always in close proximity and seem to bounce off one another. This is something we worked together on over the weeks , especially when we had learnt our lines we were able to play with this idea more. It was great having a partener who was more experienced with acting to help me with the development of my character however i would have liked more ideas and help from the director as I realy struggle with acting as it is. 


Overall I feel the rehearsal process is going fairly slow - you can understand it can be a slight issue with so many group members and trying to plough through a huge script. It also made fairly diffucult with so many people coming in as and when they feel like it as it makes it hard to work through the dialog and choreograph the musical numbers. However i feel the rehearsals so far have been quite well managed and everyone is on a set task for the lesson . 

My character

After Christmas break we were assigned our parts for the upcoming performance of malice. I was cast as Dumelda Twee a character based in reality mirroring Tweedle dumb. the setting was based in a mental hospital where i was being held under around the clock care by nurses.

I was to be accompanied by other characters mirroring those in the well known books . these included Doreen the door mouse Lopsy - the march hare Chessie - the Cheshire cats Madame Miliner - the mad hatter Dr peter - the white rabbit nurse rouge and Blanche - the red and white queen and of course Alice herself. 

alongside me I had my twin Delia Twee , Our lines always seem to be like talking in riddles and we almost seem to bounce off of one another. we are going to aim to work together to create a clear partnership and build on the relationship to translate this across to audience members. 

My character was a fairly straight forward role my self and lauren were almost in our own little world together. our movement was quite free and fluid and from the script its quite clear we can't really function without one another as we answer each others questions and are always in close proximity with one another.

Initially i found it hard to work with my partner as we had some differences prior to this show however as the show got closer we managed to get along quite well and she really helped me a lot with my confidence on stage and bringing my character out. Overall i felt we worked well together and made a fairly convincing performance .