we finally finished miyuki y los tres demonios. We had a lot of problems with make-up because Nicole didnt buy as much as i told her to, we had to use the vaseline adn the zinc oxide but it turned out fine. Using the same make-up would have been better because it would have given the actors the same texture on the skin and the same color.
Props was a disaster due to lack of organization and work. We had to do the flying cuo like 30 times because non of us including myself took the time to really fix it once adn for all. The first day of preformance the cup was a mess, the wire that hold it moved a lot and the cup wasnt straight as it should ahve been. This erros broke the illusion we were trying to create by making one stable glass fly across the kitchen. Another problem we had with the props was the piece of cloth form Miyuki´s dress that the onis finf with their brother´s head which was suposed to be stained with blood and it wasnt. Other thing i was hoping would work better were the streamers. Abby and Nicole didnt knew how to use them and we didnt have enough to waste and practice. We had to use less in the general rehearsal in order to practice but even on the 2 day of preformance Mauricio used 4 more to practice and still didnt made any difference in how they threw the streamers. If they had have more chance to practice them it would have looked a lot diffrerent and better.
We had a lot of issues with the actors themselves, first because they didnt care about their props or costumes. I had to fix several hand fans because the geishas werent able to be carefull. The same with the ninjas who broke lots of the swords we gave them. One thing that would have made the acting of the geishas better is the practice of their dance with hand fans all the time, most of them didnt bring one when we told them too aso when they had one the day of the presentation they didnt knew how to use them properly.
The costumes of almost every actor in the play got stained with make-up, i think thta if we had had more control over them they would have mainteined order and would have not ruined their costumes.
In terms of acting i think the spies could have used more energy all the time, especially in scene 8 when they meet with miyuki, before they do so they look for her and do these acrobatics but as the look for her their movements werent strong or clear enough as i had expected. Also the onis in scene 1 and a long the play as well i think they were lacking concentration and energy. They walked like normal people and should have bent their backs and moved their heds side to side, several things that would have turned them into onis. The spiders also lackes volume in their voices and enery in their movements. When they shouted to Sr.Feudal they didnt scream at all as they should have done, then as they fought with the exorcists they didnt define their movements and so it looked very vague and dull. Then the pronaunciation of Miyuki in her monologue i think could have been better, especially pronauncing the letter "d". The geishes of el Sr. Feudal lacked full concentration all four of them and that took away the energy fom all the scenes they were in. They didnt reacted when the witches apear or when the spiders fight with the exorcists. I think those reaction if marked well they could have brought the scene to a whole new level where everybody reacts and the audience can see and understand easier what it going on the scene.
Would the moths we took from Miyuki appereace have changed the way people saw her? Would it have caused a more distante relationship between the actress and the audice duw to having a koken on stage?
It took 3 months to all of them, the difference between people that trained that long and Nicole Heise who trained for only a week wasnt too much. Would the extension of the training have changed the results a lot?
