Rehearsal 3

22/05/2014
In our third rehearsal today we delved into the script and tore it apart and though about the emotions of each of that characters and why they would feel the way that they do and what would have been the thing to influence that.
We thought about what Jimmy would have been feeling during Helena's speech. We thought that Jimmy would have been trying to repress all of his anger trying his best to hold it all back as though not to hurt either Helena or Alison. He has this fairy tale relationship with Helena, everything is perfect not a thing out of place and when Alison come back and makes and appearance at the flat Jimmy just hates her, her loathes the fact that she has come back and he thinks that she has come back to ruin everything that him and Helena had created in the months that she had been there. We thought about how all of this would have made Alison feel as she is the one who is stuck in the middle of all of this. She has been taking Jimmy hurting her and making her feel awful for years and years and she gets to a point in the play were she cant take it any more and she blows her top. Jimmy has been telling her for year to get some feelings and show how she actually feel and at the point in the play when she flips she finally does what Jimmy wants and he didn't think that she had it in her to do so.
We also thought about what would have happened after the end of the play. Would everything go back to normal or would everything be forgiven and be forgotten about? We considered both option and thought about each in detail. If everything was forgiven Jimmy and Alison would be a normal everyday couple who would have their little tiffs and moans but wouldn't be violent towards each other. Jimmy might have gone to Anger management to make sure that he never hurt Alison again. They might have been able to raise a family in a normal and safe environment and live happily or it could have gone back to normal but ten times worse Alison could get alot more hurt than she did in the past, she could develop serious mental problem due to the way that Jimmy is treating her which could cause another serious upset which could end worse than the previous time.

Helena seems like the type of character who is there for people but can be easily lead astray. I want to play he as a strong and confident person as when i read the sections that she is in that's how she comes across to me. She fights for what she believes in and what she thinks is right. If she has an opinion she feels as though she owes it to the person to be honest with them.

Scenes
I thought about how Helena would have felt with Alison made a reappearance at the flat. She mentions in the script that she has never been able to forget the fact that she has done wrong toward Alison. She felt so terrible about the fact that she has taken her best friends husband away from her and tried to create a life with him. It all dawned upon her that everything she has done was wrong and it was a shock to her that Alison wasn't outraged with her. She was fairly calm and barely rose her voice at Helena.

When she is talking to Jimmy about leaving she is trying her best to fight back the tears and the upset of what is going on as her whole world is crumbling around them. For this scene i will be using Sanilowiskis method of Emotion memory to be able to get a raw emotion as I have been though the same thing. I have had to leave someone as I was causing so much upset that it was getting too much for me by using this memory i am able to convey a true emotion and it doesn't look like it is faked.