We made a ton of progress in the first week of rehearsal! I'm totally pumped! The cast is pretty decently off-book and we've blocked the majority of the play already and have begun diving deeper into the scenes to find different levels and connections between the characters! It's all very exciting!
So far we've had 7 rehearsals. The first two were spent just reading and picking apart the text together, and then the next two were used to block the first half of the piece, which involves a lot of yin/yang and emotional see-sawing between Eddie and May. There's so much conflict between them, even within their own minds and feelings about each other. I hate you! Don't leave! Kiss me. Don't touch me! Fine!!! It's a lot of intensity and complexity including some stage combat and a ton of emotions, so it's encouraging that we've already got a solid grounding between blocking and pacing of line delivery. And we've even made good progress with finding different layers within our Eddie&May relationship! Then yesterday we continued blocking with Martin's entrance, the outsider and perhaps the sole character who isn't twisted.
We were already at that point of pushing through without our scripts last week. It's one of the frustrating stages of rehearsal because as you struggle with searching for your line, you lose a lot of the specifics that were talked about and decided on with the director, so it slows the process down. But I'm extremely confident with where we're at because usually this stage doesn't happen until later in the rehearsal process, so that's reassuring... However, we have a very short rehearsal schedule, only 3 1/2 weeks, and I'm visiting my husband Matthew in Houston for the second half of this week, so when I get back we'll only have a week and a half left!
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