Posted in Ellis' Chronicles & Tales
September 13th - 15th
Our second segment of rehearsals for "Misanthropos".
When we met initially, back in March a large chunk of that rehearsal
was about finding the voice. Finding the beat and rhyme of the text,
and unifying how we deliver Shakespeare as a whole. For example I don't do
Shakespeare the tradition way; I don't necessarily follow the pauses or punctuation
of the
text (sometimes I ignore the rhyme all together, if I'm being
honest).
And while that can work on stage, in a film, the way we speak is
amplified tenfold...
it would put my delivery in uncomfortably harsh relief. And I
wasn't the
only one who's (shall we say) 'unique' way of doing Shakespeare jarred
with the
whole. So Maximianno had to bring us all together, one voice,
one rhyme,
and that involved taking the script and reading, re-reading and reading
again. And just when we thought we had read it enough, we
re-read it some
more. It sounds laborious, but by the end we were unified
(both in style
and understanding) with Shakespeare.
Read more: Rehearsals 2018
