In Edinburgh in a week!

Hey all,

We're looking at Edinburgh in a week! We fly out next Thursday and will wake up in the city of Edinburgh next Friday! We realized this upon waking this morning and started shrieking and squealing as we lay on our air mattresses trying to stretch out our cramped bodies.

Yesterday we finished up the tightening of transitions. Then we did a speed through of the transitions - going from a cue line into a transition to the next cue line into a transition. Finally, we ran the show through for the second time. We shaved off five minutes. We need to shave off about fifteen minutes more.

One thing that we all took note of during the run was that we were watching it and trying to do it. We were working as actors with director's eyes. We realized that we've taken the time we need to direct. The stage pictures are set. The piece looks the way that it needs to. It's now time to play with each other. We know the text. It's time to play within it... that's probably the hardest part of the actor's work - a least for me. You do all the work and then you have to forget about it - let it be and just have a good time.

We're already discussing how we want to see Edinburgh castle and all the sights. Looking forward to it.

Today we're missing two members who went out of town for varying and necessary circumstances. We have a half day of rehearsal today to make remaining props and look at a couple of scenes before we take two much needed days off (Saturday and Sunday) and resume rehearsals on Monday. We have three more full rehearsals! How did this happen?

With lots of love,

Jana x