A big day- we went through most of the choral sections of the play, making leaps and bounds forward in our exploration and there were some very exciting moments.
Here’s the company rehearsing a scene from the play- when the people of Thamesmead learn about Smackheaded Peter’s vision of bringing peace on earth with low-cost heroin… (A little disturbing to rehearse this section in a church?)
This is a big, beefy beast of a play and it’s challenging us all: creating physicality for the drug sections, playing large Choral scenes, taking heroin on stage… I’m also taking a conceptual approach to the play which, on a new play, is unusual for me…More about that later. The main experience from yesterday is that the “we’re beginning to get there” feeling was emerging … Yee Ha!
We had the full company together for most of the afternoon and it was delight to have the energy, focus and expertise of everyone in the room. Great strides, great strides forward.
We’ve moved into the church sanctuary this week: an accidental double-booking at the church. Although it’s got it’s challenges, (water dripping through some light fixtures and sometimes-smelly AC) it’s also lovely to have the light from the stain-glassed windows in the room. It’s a little odd to be rehearsing a play with a messiah-like figure in it, inside a church, but it may be helping…
Here’s the Holy Family from Parkdale United Church
Lots of producing things to work on in the evening-
A cracking day!