We had our first zoom rehearsal this last week and it was filled with excitement, energy, character development, and accidentally speaking over each other because of Zoom lags. Getting to hear the actors run through and share the text work they have done so far was fascinating and kind of surreal because some of their comments allowed me to go farther and expand these characters with everyone. We dove more into Mille and Rick's personal histories as well as asked questions about the relationship between them- what drew them to each other? What makes them grow throughout the scene? Questions like that that allowed us to build the psychological world of the piece. It was surreal because I've only ever known doing things like this with professional, published, and well known scripts, so getting to do it for my own words was slightly fulfilling.
Nich did a wonderful job for our first rehearsal in my opinion, especially with the given online rehearsal format. For despite him having little to no theatre experience he still knows how to ask important questions that will get the actors thinking on how they can best portray their characters in these given moments. We start in person rehearsals and I'm thrilled to see it come even more to life in my eyes and see how blocking works out with the limited physical abilities we have. I know this crew is going to knock 'em dead and I can't wait for the process to continue.
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