Rehearsal Night 1

from Marcel

Actors turning up on time... I like that. Just sets the right tone to things. Everyone is happy. Everyone is relaxed. Perfect conditions to create in.

A half hour before they arrived I spent clearing up the space. There was a table with lighting instruments sitting in the middle of the floor that just had to go... and the propane heater to fire up. Our rehearsal space (aka my garage) can be fucking cold on nights like these.

First rehearsals are always a little awkward and anxious affairs. It's natural and perfectly normal. Even for the director.

Noticed I said director? Yeah, a little of the playwright is still hanging around... only till the end of this week. Only until the rewrites that we are determining together are solidified. After that... we throw that hack out. Then it's time to really brutalize the piece... and I've been known to be a real bastard with my own work.

We started with the first 20 odd pages of the script. Ran through it about 4 times in the span of 2 hours... trying this and that along the way. By the second run... something was starting to show. Nothing to nail down yet... but I think we are discovering some material together that we can start to build on.

Night 2 tomorrow. I think we had a bloody good start though. Thanks R & G... you are certainly making this a fun ride on the beast.