Production ideas and technical rehearsals

       
     For our group, Daniella worked as a director, but we all contributed with ideas regarding the actor's play, the directing part and the technical theatre work. I really felt like we were all implied in the creative process and we stayed committed to our work and progress. Anyways, when things were getting a little bit complicated, Daniella was there to remind us we have to focus.
      We decided our play to be a combination of the classic version and a modern one, as we eliminated the swords from the battle scene between Banquo and the murderers and modernized the costumes, but kept the classic manners and behaviour.
       We had as our first scene a moment inspired from ''Hamilton'', a musical we had the chance to see in November. So, all the characters were wearing black hoodies and we created a musical moment, one of the witches rapping her lines and the rest of us keeping the rhythm with different gestures. We liked it and chose to do something like this, because the energy we got then from the actors was amazing, was something new and different and we wanted to do the same in our play. Furthermore, I consider music to be maybe the most sensible type of art, so inserting music even from the beginning of the play will bring the audience closer to the story.
       
        
        The day of technical rehearsals

        I have to admit we were worried about the technical part of our performance because of different reasons, like: ''What if the guys working with the lights can't hear a queue line and skip a light effect?'' or ''Will all our  sounds be available for the performance day?'', but most of all we were worried because we only had one day of technical rehearsals. That means we had a very little time to communicate to the technical theatre team our ideas and vision.  We  needed some props as well, like the big table from the Banquo’s apparition scene, the swords used for two fight scenes, an alcohol bottle for the porter and drunk Macbeth scene. That day I found the decorated shirt for my character through the costumes and I borrowed it. 
       Before this day our team had several meetings to discuss the sound and music we should use. As we wanted music to increase the dramatic character of the play, we were thinking to have some songs from “Game of thrones” series. But, as we had made this play a little bit modern, there had to be some modern music too. We had the beggining song for the “Hamilton” part as an instrumental of a known song by Little Mix, perfect for the rap part, we had “7 Rings” by Ariana Grande for the part where Macbeth is drunk and for the ending scene, which was my favourite in matter of dramatic impact, we had “You should see me in a crown” by Billie Eilish. 
       That day I had two new expierences. Firstly, I have never worked with a technical theatre team before. For the “Antigone” scene Rob did all the work for us, but now we had to handle it and make our own decisions. This had made me feel more experienced and confident because I am able to put a whole performance together with my team. Secondly, I had no idea in the backstage we had something more than space to walk around. But, surprise, we had super good looking and functional changing rooms where I could hear everything spoken on the scene via a speaker. I was truly amazed by that and by the large number of mirrors waiting for each actor to occupy their place in front of them. 
       I was feeling like a professional and serious actor, even though I have a long way ahead of me in order to get there. Good thing I won’t ever get tired of this feeling.