Friday, April 19, 2013

End of week 4

So the thing is blocked out. When the second half moves as it should, it's a giddy ride but it only needs one line to drop, one entrance to be slightly late and the wheels come off.We've been working this second half for the best part of two weeks, one cast one week, the other the next. This is a deflating business and i feel sorry for the second cast. The thrill of discovery is replaced with, if you're not careful, the chore of going over it all again but we did improve on some scenes.There is also as I feared the fact that one or two roles seem more appropriate to members of one cast than the other.

And there's been the evening rehearsals with 37 youth who have proved very hard to keep focussed. Jo came to one rehearsal and when she could bear it no longer (some group chortling and then criticizing another youth's mistake. She stood up and screamed at them, saying that as she'd written it, she was bloody well going to take it back and she didn't give a shit. They were stunned and the next ten minutes were bliss. for the first time one could rehearse little bits to a backdrop of silence.No one dared look anywhere else from their choral seating area than at the actors performing on the stage.The only mistake she made was after the run through, that was very good, she gave the play back to them.Too soon in my opinion! The next day it was business as usual.

In the last 24 hours there's suddenly been unlooked for, unexpected money available for a big extension to the sports area at WSB. It's made it impossible to focus entirely on directing.

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