{"id":1064,"date":"2017-08-18T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2017-09-01T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:49:40","slug":"moving-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/moving-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wela Mbusi<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Week three of rehearsals and our actors\u2019 imaginations are being called upon to stretch beyond their known limitations. Whether it&#8217;s by choice or not, exhaustion can sometimes be the thing you need to transport you from the dull and austere to the absurd. From the mind-bending task of watching Ben transform from one character to another a dozen times in a single scene, to Peter frantically scratching himself in the hopes of finding some semblance of a character. Anna has also been tirelessly donning multiple outfits for Isabella as I&#8217;m spinning in circles also trying to find the internals of my characters.<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG-20170818-WA0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1066\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG-20170818-WA0001-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG-20170818-WA0001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG-20170818-WA0001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG-20170818-WA0001-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG-20170818-WA0001-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> The highlight of the week has been a visit from Si\u00e2n Williams who is a choreographer, movement specialist, and theatre practitioner. Her invaluable knowledge on how to produce movement from the root of the play and the convention we&#8217;re using, has not only been intellectually taxing but very fruitful as we&#8217;ve been learning to merge the two languages. This has been a test for all of us this week, but how we&#8217;ve managed to overcome our frustrations, has also meant that we are developing a shorthand in how we communicate our idea, and by the time we get to America, we&#8217;ll be a well-oiled hive mind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wela Mbusi Week three of rehearsals and our actors\u2019 imaginations are being called upon to stretch beyond their known limitations. Whether it&#8217;s by choice or not, exhaustion can sometimes be the thing you need to transport you from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/moving-limitations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2696,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47489,84479],"tags":[84486,47617,84483,84484,84479,84487,84485,84482],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors-from-the-london-stage","category-measure-for-measure","tag-actors-from-the","tag-anna-wright","tag-ben-eagle","tag-dominic-gerrard","tag-measure-for-measure","tag-movement","tag-peter-bray","tag-wela-mbusi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}