Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The rehearsal schedule

A friend has asked me to direct his new play, and I just spent a jolly hour creating a proposed rehearsal schedule. I can visualize how it will go (it will not go exactly that way, but still...). I think there will be 22 rehearsals, and my next job is to subdivide the script into sub-scenes so I can rehearse a small part of the cast in a focused way without making the rest of the cast stand around doing nothing.

I can feel the weight of actors' needs, script rewrites, set building, lighting plot, all more comfortably and confidently than I can feel the balance of forces for anything in any of my "real" jobs this decade.

Good skills, but not for this era, I guess.

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