We finally managed to make a full-run of the play and give it an ending, and were less than a week away from the actual performance. Through the last rehearsals, some issues emerged, one being the voice exploration of Esteban, who struggled to make a high pitch voice, and only seemed to be able to project his voice at a lower pitch. We all tried to help him out in different ways, but he still couldn't, so we had to go through a simple musical scale exercise to test his range of pitches. After some while of repeating the exercise, Esteban was able to find the higher pitches in his voice, but only at a low volume. Finding the ranges of our voice is very useful for character exploration, and to give one's character different ranges of emotion that can be expressed by different levels of pitch and volume. But as we saw, our full vocal range can sometimes be elusive, and can only be achieved by these warming exercises and stepping out of our comfort zone, because we become used to speak in one pitch and register and tend to stick close to it. Warming up is also essential to keep the pace of the play going, because it makes us go into the scenes already in character and with the right amount of energy, if not, the characters probably wouldn't be complete the moment we go on-stage, and the energy would probably be low. If the audience sees low energy at the beginning of the play, they feel discouraged to keep watching and probably wont enjoy it, so its crucial that we have a good start in able to get their attention. One of the things that worries me the most right now is the ending, where the lights stay turned off, and don't come back on again until the play finishes, because the original idea was to make the lights turn off so that we could rearrange the stage in order to show the audience the no-split. Now, without this change, I don't see the reason behind the turning off of the lights, and am not sure whether its going to work so well. Maybe its because I was just accustomed to the idea of showing the no split at the end, or that I dont like the idea of the lights never coming on again, but we will just have to see how it looks in tomorrow morning's  rehearsal in Hiram Bingham College.

Are different ranges of voice necessary to express different emotions? or can a character have a monotone voice and still express their emotions fully?