We start the day with the two drug sections that Andrew and I investigated yesterday. Just a small group of people, me, Richard Stewart and Bryan Demore. Lauren Williams, our stage manager is there as well. We hop in the pool and swim around with the conversation that happens between Peter, (when he’s experiencing heroin for the first time) and a...
Read MoreChoral work, persuasion games and hallucinations
Day Two: A company vocal warm-up to start. Richard Stewart and Marilla Wex are the ying and yang of voice work for our company. Richard is focusing on voice work and Marilla is our dialect ‘go to person’ for this process. Their skills are fantastically complimentary and we have a wonderful, freeing voice warm up that finishes with practicing...
Read MoreDay 1- text to free play
Day one: Meet and Greet Sign letters of agreement Read the script. It was an intense reading- the concentration in the room was considerable… Here’s a photo of peeps around the table delving into this rich play. Then a brief talk about the play- Any strong feelings, thoughts… What did you learn about it this time? And then we start scene...
Read Moreplay day, research?
Time is flying by and tomorrow we start rehearsals! Definitely looking forward to getting in the rehearsal room with this play and this most excellent group of people. I really wanted us to have a little research time… or a play day… before we sat down to read the play, so on Friday we had just over three hours of time in a rehearsal room at...
Read Moreplanning a go-go
Friday was an excellent day! We had a four-hour session of meeting and greeting actors, chatting, measuring actors for costumes, catching up on design conversations, updating production schedules- all very exciting. In terms of set design, it looks as though we’re going to pursue ‘the cardboard way’- which I think is great. Also, some...
Read MoreSmack Set/Costume Day
An exciting morning ahead- Meeting costume/set designer Brandon Kleiman to see costume and set sketches. We were talking about our set being created out of card board- so it’ll be interesting to see if that’s the direction we go. I love working with set materials that can be recycled. Last year on the production of Twelfth Night (in Oxford,...
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