Rehearsing

In the rehearsals it identified how learning lines made it so much easier to create the physicality of your character and helped you have a scene that flowed with your other actors lines. I was great finally getting the words on a page become something visually more interesting. It was so helpful being directed by miss' opinion of how it should look and how the line should be said. 

Getting the part of Jan and looking her lines I had just assumed she was tough and insensitive. Although, speaking to miss and annotating the script, i learnt she is a people pleaser. When trouble comes knocking, she tries to say it wasn't her fault. Like in my scene when they are describing the terrible things they did to adam she notices people aren't laughing with her and when it gets worse and worse she quickly interrupts "Thats when i went home." trying to completely escape what had happened. As well as this, I walk away and turn my back on Brian when he tells the end of the story like I don't want any more to do with it. Those little things and stage directions happen all in the rehearsal. Thats why it's a really important stage in discovering your character further than what you read about her in the script.