Joan's Voices: Acting -- it's a prayer and a surrender

Worse rehearsal is a long time -- the worst: was not prepared for the scene, had not worked/thought it through. Other problems:

• forgot to write down blocking for the last rehearsal so today I was suddenly lost,
• didn't mentally-physically rehearse and pick out one or two things to address
• overtired: not enough rest/sleep

Generally felt terrible, aware of how little I was getting or giving, and was not able to rally or focus, and rally to what, focus on what? Jill somewhat pointedly noted my fumbling during rehearsal . . .I was not prepared -- I'd better figure out what that means, how exactly to do that.

Next time:

1. Prepare: read/review the scene, blocking notes, any notes from self rehearsal. Critical to self rehearse, and then prepare to rehearse -- be ready to do that (don't just show up and then try to get orientated).
2. Pick specific things I want to work on.
3. Rehearse well -- give it my all (#1, #2, #4, & #5 here will be the foundation of this)
4. After rehearsal, sit down, review, as I'm doing now
5. Write down the next steps, the next things I want/need to do in rehearsing a scene