Pushing forward through tech. No viewpoints today.
Anne: “I have the great honor of watching you come up with stuff. I want the audience to have that sensation. I’m not in the position of saying ‘you’re a lesbian, you’re on fire, you’re on a table, GO!’ There’s a certain exactitude with the way that you can come up with stuff together.”
Re: after the Jason Rhoades text
Anne: “I’ll just say that there’s something mysterious going on and I’d hate to have that collapse into a relationship.”
There was a moment where Anne described a moment as a ‘tesseract.’ A Wrinkle in Time?
Re: a hanging mask
Anne: “It’s a dangling signifier.”
Re: divorce scene
Anne: “Hey Makela, Stephen? I felt a lot of history in that.”
After dinner the group went for their second run, incorporating all the changes and questions that had come up over the past 36 hours. It was quite an experience all together. I was struck this time how, as a viewer, I was constantly trying to figure out how to watch the show, then once I had learned, it all exploded and quite literally rebuilt itself for me. Once again I learned how to watch only to have it all turned upside down. It made me very vulnerable to the experience of this show. I think it’s going to be really something special with an audience.
Quite a few notes. Some good discussion. There was a long discussion about the Putnam scene. “It’s didactic… it’s a hard scene. The play really sits down in that moment. I think we’ve layered it too much, and it’s the layers that make it didactic.” J.Ed decided he’d try the speech straight to the audience.
Show time: 1 hr 44 minutes… getting closer, Anne!
Day off tomorrow. People will sleep, go to the gym, go see Ryan Adams, do yoga, and otherwise chill out after a great week. I’m personally astonished at this tech. I’ve never seen a tech go so smoothly. No one ever seemed stressed. Every one had great energy and totally brought their all. Everyone was sharp and on their game for every minute. In turn, it was a pleasure to be in the room for every minute of tech. Looking forward to Tuesday and our first preview.
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