Opening in less than a week...

Hello!

We realized before we ran the show last night that we open in LESS THAN A WEEK! Whew!

We had a good rehearsal yesterday. We worked on scenes that needed more attention. Particularly the fools scenes, Act III.ii and the end of Act IV. They're looking and feeling a lot better.

We ran the show last night and had three people watching - one of whom was video taping! We are debating whether or not to watch the footage before we leave for Edinburgh. Part of us wants to see how it is looking visually but the other part doesn't want to be distracted by how we look, etc...so that we can just go with what we know and have and trust. We'll see.

Felix, our advisor, saw it last night and had some good feedback for us - focusing in on physical detail. We decided we need to revert to something we found in the original production and that is to find a physical "zero" for each of our characters. This means we find the way in which a character always goes back to standing/sitting physically. Whether he leans a certain way, tightens a certain muscle or twitches, we each need to know the physical zero of the character so that the audience will see the zero occurring through each actor playing him from scene to scene and know it's the same character.

The show felt stable last night. We have been encouraged to trust in the work we've done. Something helpful that was shared with us is that we all play "real" very well and need to trust the work we've done in "realism" and now let that work expand, grow, breathe and catapult so that our energy hooks the audience from the get-go. We need to go for broke, essentially.

I think what's most reassuring is that we can do this because we are doing this and we have done this. All that's left is transferring this to Edinburgh, which is sure to bring a new energy unlike any we've ever experienced.

With Love,

The TLs