First Scenes. They were scared. I was scared for them. It's was nerve wrecking, I didn't realize til the day of just how much I wanted them to do well.
I had my ideas of who would do well during performance, based on what I saw during the rehearsals. Some kept playing and discovering things about their scenes, setting up given circumstances for themselves even if they hadn't read the play. They busied themselves doing things that helped them get into the world of the play and make it a specific performance. These scenes were fantastic to watch.
Others, would rehearse the scene maybe once or twice during a class period and then sit and talk about anything else for the rest of the class. During these people's scenes I would start on the edge of my chair and as the scene went on and the ideas became less clear and the movement stunted I'd feel myself slowly sink back into my seat. If they didn't do the work it made everybody feel awkward.
One thing I struggled with was grading the scenes. If I didn't fill out the grading sheet as I went, I felt like I wouldn't remember everything. Yet, if I spent the entire time looking at the sheet I would definitely miss things because I wasn't watching the scene. Do you grade them all the same? It's very clear they came in with varying levels of skill. The only thing it felt fair to grade them on was how hard they worked on it.
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