Thursday, February 27

Everyone	People noises Enter  with noise two feet out and keep making noise two feet in.
Eli	Beckons Singing????? Keep up with your props. Troth long O Doll nipples
Lovers Mayor & fiancé	People noises after Egeus (Puck) claps Refuse to wed Demetrius – everyone was in a straight line. Betwixt my love and me was awkward People noises exiting – D, T, E
Hermia	Louder – hard to hear you where judges are. Make a sound coming in after Puck’s two of both kinds. I am amazed was off
Lysander	Next scene was profile. Shake with love potion
Helena	Squeaky – teach me how you look Louder in scene after Lysander has the love potion. Keen mockery line could not be understood. Lower pitch needed.
Mechanicals	Need people noises entering and exiting Eliana, - want you to dance Need a stage pic at the end Work on freeze
MOON	??????
Oberon	Straighten your back – move more C stage – you need to be OVER all the people – you were lost with the fairies. Sanitarium – look at Hermia First Oberon scene – keep voice deeper Don’t growl swifter than wind – couldn’t understand you
Titania	Not for fairy kingdom – louder and to audience
Riley	Thunder too quick – Fairies away – thunder after that
Lysander & Hermia	One turf – toward audience
LOVERS	SHAKE NO ONE DID THIS
Stick people	Aye Me – hit Mia, hide your pearls as a stick person.
Lysander & Demetrius	PN Leaving
Demetrius	When Eli hits your butt, react!
Colin, Eli, Tre, Hannah	What happened to freezing claps & reactions?
Gage	Difficult to understand as the girl.voice

February 23

Everyone	You know I cannot lie!  IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!  IT WAS BEYOND AMAZING!!!!! The changes were so good.  DICTION !!!!!!   Cooper could not understand Eli, Colin & Titania & others, but she mentioned you people.  BUT EVERYONE can work on diction.  HIT CONSONANTS.  EACH SENTENCE is SEPARATE!  EACH Word must be HIT!!!! We need to move 4X8 so that actors speak more to the audience.  Colin and I moved it, but we need to remember this because the map is made. Bottom’s change into a donkey – still not enough magic.  Eli’s back was to the audience so we could not see Ramzi.  Need Clay to move over by Ramzi.  More shaking needed.  Eli could you clap – freeze mechanicals except Bottom – he shakes – drum and trumpet then clap – that way you guys are not distracting.  It will clean that scene up a little. I want Eli to move the moon. Please thank the Buntings for creating the program.  It was amazing! Please thank mechanicals, Eli, Riley, Colin & Alee for the extra rehearsal yesterday.  It helped so much today. Freeze cleaner Louder and better diction Step on lines. Everyone needs to jerk more when affected by magic We need to concentrate on diction – I said this at the beginning, but have forgotten to reinforce this – In Shakespeare, if there are words that signify an emotion or attitude, the line needs to feel that emotion or attitude.  If the line has an action verb – you need to CONVEY the meaning of that verb to the audience.  The key to the judges is that the lines can be understood ! TUESDAY is FAT TUESDAY!  Wear your shirts & eat lunch with us!  If you are signed up for anything to bring, don’t forget.  We can use water!   I’ll email teachers that you will be in my room during lunch and advisory.
POSITIVES	IT WAS REALLY EVERYONE’S BEST PERFORMANCE SO FAR.  WE NEED TO WORK ON  - DICTION – VARYING PACING OF SENTENCES AND EMPHASIS OF WORDS GREAT SWAMP NOISES & MUSIC FAIRIES WERE ENGAGED.  NOT A DISTRACTION TODAY. MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS, & LIGHTS WERE GREAT. MECHANICALS SCENES WERE SO MUCH BETTER – THINK YOU CAN BE BIGGER.
	SEVEN REHEARSALS BEFORE DISTRICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO ONE CAN MISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK A CREW MEMBER, ACTORS!!!!!!!
Alee	Fairies away needs to be to the audience.  Step on lines. Loosen up with Oberon.  Be more playful, sexier – intend to seduce him. Jerk more with the potion.
Fairies	MUCH BETTER!!!! Are you not he?  Mistress – we will work on these tomorrow – They need to sound creepier
Kate M	Oh spite – needs to be like oh crap.  Then the next lines you are telling the audience you are not going to keep your promise to Hermia and Lysander
Clay	Really great job!  We need drums with the jacket change in the beginning.  We need to rehearse this. It was a little awkward.  Don’t really know why. Drums when Titania awakes.
Mia	As wall – more to the audience – I think with changing the
Carter	Bow tie? HAIR – YOU KEEP MESSING WITH IT AND IT IS DISTRACTING I need your pants!  Taking them tomorrow.
Couples	Stay closer together – like you can’t keep your hands off each other.
Ramzi	Spread yourselves? Rare vision lines were too slow and needed to have more varied pacing. Blood – say it weird – hit the d. Let’s add the tail.  Think it is in the blue tub.
Colin	Abs?  Get Jaeden to do tattoos on your body.  He did great ones on Clay’s neck. Growling on torment ????? This is thy negligence – maybe more measured so you can show your anger. When Titania leaves after saying you can’t have the boy – chase her a bit.
Tre	Instead of just being disgusted with Helena, be more exasperated – begging her to leave you alone Diction was much better.
Scotlynn	Thanks so much for taking Breck’s part.  You were always engaged.
Eli	Be more deliberate.  When lines are in iambic pentameter – use this.  (from a person who knows Shakespeare – Johnny Vasek) At times, the top hat shadowed your face. I thought it was your best performance. On hempen homespuns – just those two words in Southern accent.    Enter from another place when putting potion on Lysander.
MECHANICALS	BIGGER!   THE CHANGES WE MADE NEED TO BE BIGGER.  ENTERING THE SWAMP WAS SO MUCH BETTER BUT NEEDS TO BE IN SYNC. Maybe Kaytlyn – stomp on 4 X 8. Wait  One Mississippi beat.  and yell Ninus. Blocking was bad at times.
Demetrius & Helena	Really good chemistry.
Lovers	Mosquitos and bugs in the swamp. Watch Shakespeare in love for the starry eyed love scenes.  You need to look AT EACH OTHER with love.  We can do this in class tomorrow.
Hermia & Lysander	Great job on waking up – lie further off.  The best. Match more as far as energy – Ms. Bobo
Stick people	Aye me HIT   We didn’t rehearse it.
James McKay	Hee haw trumpet during transformation.  You might be over by Bottom as well.
Titania & Colin	Too profile a lot of the time.
Crew	We never show our appreciation enough.  Thanks so much for all your help. We need to do something different with the voodoo box.  That light at the top was weird.  It needs to look like an uncanny glow.

February 20

Everyone	Sell fertilizer – everyone is supposed to sell 8 bags or pay $56.  Now we have to buy a new light board. Everyone made that commitment. Watch lines Take casting call sign down after first mechanicals scene Champagne bottle wrong period Quiet backstage – NO CREW BACKSTAGE Why was the director’s chair out during the entire play? We need to see ELI put the ears on Bottom.  THIS MUST BE MAGICAL.  I want the drummer by Bottom & maybe a light. WE HAVE TO SEE THIS. Quit dropping character Don’t forget that the swamp is gross and filled with tons of bugs and mosquitos Strange things that are scary – the lovers never showed a difference except for stepping on the bug. Freeze precisely Freeze when Eli claps Rework last scene. Fat Tuesday – what do you want to eat for lunch. I’m asking the office to play Cajun – 20’s music during each passing period – Alee – can you do this?
Colin	Consonants at the beginning To abjure forever – no pause Growling at beginning of forest scene Shoes Do not laugh after this is thy negligence Stay in character Get in Pucks face when you say Lysander twice Celebration at the end.
Kaytlyn	Take your glasses off when you get mad.
Sticks	Hannah was blocked by sticks
Hannah	Consonants talking about Lysander Voice is too pitchy in swamp.
Carter	Consonants when he turns – ask Emma When you say unfold – you are telling Helena it is a secret.
Eliana	Watch your hat casting a shadow Lion scene – consonants Dance coming in Flowers in urns Go back to the way you did the lion before.  It was way too slow tonight. Think of being a stupid Chihuahua
Fairies	Always react Don’t be distracting in the background of any scene.
Drums	Were not consistent Be careful not to be louder than actors.
Alee	Show starts with sound and ends with sound
Eli and fairies	Distracting when Colin and Alee first meet NO CARDS
Kate A	Hum louder and keep humming until there is dialogue. Liked singing - louder
Mechanicals  & fairies	Swamp scene – better. Move more downstage.  Fairies be ever present but not distracting reblock second scene Look at Iowa’s mechanicals People noises
Eli	Don’t be distracting with mechanicals at the beginning Auditor means spectator Sad – say the intent behind the word Mad – say the intent behind the word. When bottom is singing, can you dance behind him?
Clay and Breck	React to Hannah (drums were needed)
Clayton	DO NOT TAKE THE WIG OFF
Ramzi	Red material? Look at Iowa university’s Bottom. On all fours at one point Don’t look at eli when he trips you.
Breck	That hobgoblin – not who
Alee	More enthralled with bottom
Tre	Shake more than your head when the drum beats. Act more manly when protecting Helena.  Shoulders back head up React when Eli touches you when you’re looking for Demetrius.

Snyder Critiques

Snyder February 17, 2020

Everyone	Rehearse your lines.  Hit all consonants and each word must be separate Cut camera Gestures should pull your body Speak to the audience Then our
Alee & Eli	Keep snake and alligator
Music	Did not hear music before second mechanicals Music was too loud underscoring Kate’s Oh Spite line
Ramzi	Some actor must present wall Bottom has to think about the words
Drums	When Demetrius falls asleep last time.
Clay	Look at whomever is speaking.  You MUST have expression on your face.
Breck	Good job on other side of cobwebs, watching
Colin	New Orleans Tuck shirt in.  NO ONE IN THE 20s would have left shirt untucked.  Someone tuck it in for him Don’t growl as fairy king – two people have told you that DICTION
Mechanicals	BE BIGGER  Watch silent movies.  There is not enough contrast between rehearsal and the play
Alee & Colin	Nuptials draw near - profile
Ramzi & Tre Colin	Diction separate words
Flute	Handkerchief to cry into
Eli	AFTER Colin and Alee’s dialogue, wink, fairies hand you hats.  Don’t know if you can hold the hat in your hand.  You have to get the envelope Need drums there with changing of hat and pulling up pants Can you sing LAST line of song after your last monologue

Feb 16

EVERYONE	PEOPLE NOISES LOUDER AT THE BEGINNING AFTER FREEZE We have to do physical warmups before you go on on Monday Even if we are over – I want the entire show so they can see the ending.
EGEUS, THESEUS, AND DEMETRIUS	PEOPLE NOISES AS YOU EXIT FIRST SCENE.
FLUTE	Underwear and bring the apron to me.
Titania	I have forsworn – to audience
Demetrius	Do I entice you – consonants each word is separate…
Kate A	Keep singing offstage until next line Sing during the time when bottom gets his ears.
Bottom	Shake when you get your ears Faster on the singing ain’t misbehaving.
Oberon	Sticks – practice this BEFORE we go on.
Hermia	Cuddle – giggle then straight up – wide eyes as if you are scared – no crying there. In fact, write down the type of crying you do – tired, mad, hysterical = they should all be different.
Stick people	Faster exiting and in character.
Puck	Faster on the line before the second mechanicals’ scene. Cursed and sad – make your voice and body react like the words – knavish lad – mad(crazy)
Mechanicals	Faster entrance.
Clay, Breck, James	More expressions all the time.
Carter, Clay, Eli	Quit messing with your hair or cut it off.
Oberon and Titania	Vocals as you exit
Lovers and mechanicals	Vocals as you enter.
Man in the moon	Funny but FASTER
Riley and eli	Moon?????