After yesterdays exciting character discoveries, we were really eager to see what other cast members would bring to their prespective characters, and, of course, we were not disappointed!
First was the turn of Prospero - a highly skilled and powerful man, whose power only falls over the few inhabitants of the island. He dotes on his daughter, Miranda, and fears that if he loses her respect, he has nothing else. We worked with Vicci on lowering her voice to become more masculine, and on the physical stance of Prospero - playing a strong male character character means that there is a huge leap for Vicci to make in terms of characterization.
Ariel was up next, and it came to light that she is just a lonely, mischievious child, who uses her superpower of being able to disappear in the hope that people will like her. She relinquishes her boredom by playing tricks on Caliban and Prospero, but is essentially lost in the realms of Prospero's power.
Finally, we worked with Ben on his two characters; Caliban and Adrian. Caliban is a festering pot of anger and excitement, and easily led and misguided. All he wants is to control the island, and would definitely choose to have power over having friends, because it would mean he could hit people with his stick.
Adrian seems to be lost within a group who do not listen to him, or acknowledge his existence. He takes great pride in his ability to read maps and compasses, and in the fact that he has never, not once in his life, been lost.
It's been another really fruitful day in our rehearsal process, and soon we can dive into scene work. We're a little bit excited to introduce all of these new and wonderful characters to each other - just to see how they interact, and how they cope with being lost together.
On another note, our own Vicci was on the radio today talking everything Hammerpuzzle, skydives and Shakespeare... if you'd like to listen, here's the link!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001jvrn
it's about 1 hour 38 minutes in, and under the 3rd August.
Vicci and Suze are going to be falling out of a plane tomorrow morning, and we'd all really appreciate your support!
Stay tuned for more things HP as our rehearsal week continues!
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