Hello! We are narrowing the gap between now and Edinburgh! We have a rehearsal today that will take us into a "packing party" tonight and leave us ready for our flight out of Syracuse tomorrow evening! Ah-haha! We are doing it! ...Can you tell that we're excited?
Yesterday was another great rehearsal. We keep tweaking and tweaking to make a better show. We came in and re-worked the Goddess. We still haven't found a way to make the transition into the Goddess smooth due to fabric hindrances. The fabric doesn't want to stay on the Goddess...so we're going to find a way to button/sew it on and that way the transition will be smooth and quick. After messing with the Goddesses, we found the characters' 'zeros' beginning with the fools and working all the way up to Prospero. We now have physical similarities between each of us that should link the characters from actor to actor as we change parts.
After solidifying physical consistency, we ran the show and had a few people watching. Among those in the audience were Tim Davis-Reed, our Fringe faculty advisor, Leslie Noble, an SU Drama faculty member who saw the original production, and, Tim Bond, the Syracuse Stage Artistic Director. We were so grateful that they were willing to take time out of their busy schedules to come and see the piece. They were very supportive of the work and said it had found a deeper place, which was exactly what we had hoped for in remounting the project. Leslie left us with some food for thought, which I think will only allow the piece to unfold more.
It's finally starting to hit us that we are going to Edinburgh. We're sending packages home that we don't want to lug through Europe. We're doing laundry and getting the props and costumes we need ready for transport. We have to find a way to get all of our props, costumes and intruments into our own suitcases...that will be an adventure tonight.
Our itinerary is to fly out tomorrow night at 6:30pm. We land in Philadelphia about 7:30pm and have a small layover before flying to London at 9:55pm. We reach London at 10am on Friday morning. We then have another layover before we fly out of London to Edinburgh. We will reach Edinburgh around 4pm local time. ...And then we perform and see theater in Edinburgh Scotland and have the time of our lives - We're really excited!
Today we have rehearsal in which we will repair Goddess fabric and get it to stick together, we work with Ariel fabric transitioning into the Harpy and then we will do a run. We will then take a break and do another evening run between 6 and 8pm, the timeblock in which we will be performing in Edinburgh. This is to get used to performing at that hour as well as to get used to setting up and breaking down the set on either end of the show and within our reserved two hour timeblock.
That is that. Should be able to update tomorrow!
Love and hugs,
The TLs
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"The fabric doesn't want to stay on the goddess."
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