Had ANOTHER first rehearsal again last night...this time for a ten minute play I'm directing for James Kuhl at Tipping Point for the Sandbox Play Festival. It's a fun way to get to work on a play during a quick 6 hour process. I acted in one last year directed by James as it was a very informative process.
This year, I'm directing. I didn't feel as prepared as I wanted to due to working a lot on Gruesome, which is something I'm going to have to work double hard to be prepared for tonight's rehearsal.
The toughest thing about this process is that there are only three two-hour rehearsals. Which means there's not much margin for error or time to waste.
A big thing I learned last night is that, for this particular process, I needed to harp on energy and builds more. I missed that through all of the table work and attempting to uncover actions. I had them read through it over and over knowing I could get to the whole energy thing at the next rehearsal. But my fear is that i didn't give them enough of a push in that direction so they will have thought that what they were doing was fine. It wasn't bad, but not where it needs to be.
Today pre-rehearsal will be spent mining action from the play. The play is fizzling out and becoming stagnant midway through, so tonight's rehearsal will be crucial to block and get on the right page as far as actions go...we'll only have one more rehearsal after that.
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