You only fight with those you love... That sounds weird, right? But when you think about it, you would just walk away from a fight or ignore some petty person who doesn't mean anything to you.
Fool For Love is not a play about hatred. There is pain and frustration and fear. There is also attraction and care and a lot of love.
We had another solid run today, and then we altered a few of the beats' intentions slightly to add even more facets of the character relationships. Earlier this week we changed a little blocking to add some physical intimidation through Eddie's character which raises the intensity between him and May, and in turn, it causes more fear for May's side of the situation....
But today we talked about how much these characters love and care deeply for each other. It's not just anger and fighting and then sometimes some really passionate attraction. So we found some really great moments to be more sincere and sweet with the lines, and I love what we worked out! It makes the characters so much more real and dimensional, and I think it tugs more at the heart strings now. If we can see how much they still love each other, we can better understand why they keep coming together and why they stay and fight so much. Otherwise one of them would just walk away from the other and never turn back.
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