Stage Fight

On Saturday we rehearsed Caeser's assassination for the first time, and it will incorporate a stage fight. Basically I get to beat up four guys (one twice) before I get killed. It will probably take less than a minute in stage time but it's pretty intricate and I'm getting all messed up with my footwork. I've never done anything like this before. Stage fighting is now taught in any decent Theatre Arts program, but wasn't in my day. We have a special fight director for this, he taught us the moves and we ran through it in slow motion a couple of times, then broke it down to each individual sequence (me practicing one series of moves on one guy, then moving on to the next) and wrapped up by running through the entire sequence in slow motion several times again. It exhausted me and I'm still sore today! Next Saturday they will be learning another fight sequence for the battle at the end of the play, mercifully I won't be in that one.