Saturday, June 20, 2009

Palpable relief and the need for a climax

Ok, so we had our first run without stopping and our first audience of three. And although the play still needs to gets it's arc right, (ie we need to see what happens in the little quest we establish - does Thandeka find out what happened to her dad in Johannesburg? Does it matter? Does she make sense of her journey...etc) - still, at least the audience (of three) is interested in what happens to her. This is good.

Its been an incredibly taxing week, trying to push it all together. The performers we are working with are AMAZING!!! I am SOSOOOOOSO impressed by them. I am constantly giving them new bits of script, new lines, taking away lines I gave them only a day ago. (Oh sorry, did you learn those words, well, we're cutting them!). And I have never seen any of them with script in hand during a rehearsal or run through. They are SO professional, SO versatile and so so talented.

Congrats to them. And to Jen and I for casting them - aren't we clever for spotting such talent!!

No, no video yet. Monday, Monday....

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