On Monday we warmed up with Joe's cast by playing jump rope. This got everyone's energy up. Then, I had everyone look through their script as a reminder. I said look through and write in all your cues that you're missing, which might include "stand left of Martin," "sharp look," or "speak to her like a sister." I took questions and we eased into the work mentally before physically. Afterwords, we ran through the piece several times. We've been doing so much up-close, chopped up work during the past week, I thought it would be effective to work through the whole thing and mash everything together. I needed to be reminded of the peice as a whole just as much as the cast. We ran through and gave notes a few times, working on blocking in the theatre. I'm letting them run with choices whether it be changing their dialect or making faces behind Mrs. Barrows back. Mostly because each choice seem to get bigger and more pronounced each time we run the scene. I really get to see everyone come alive this way and its great!
I'm still working on the diagonals, where the blocks will be and how to have everyone manuever around them. One obstacle our cast faces is the juxtaposition of four different settings in under ten minutes. I have a nuetral set in mind for this. I need to jump into run throughs more often, and kill most of the wandering. But I am very excited that this play is getting on its feet, and getting bigger!
Haley
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