What if...?

Howdy,

Today we did our second run through for designers and Alchemy's A.D. Bob Saxner. What a difference a week makes. The actors were deeply and intimately connected. I got great notes from Bob after the run. Some of them were about 'how far, or ugly, can we push these characters?' It was a great question to ask. I can honestly say that we've seen that in the process in development and it doesn't fully serve the play. However, his point was good, to not let the actors back away from uglier moments...which they are finding. The reason we can ask and examine these questions is because the work is very solid. Now there is an impulse to challenge the hypothesis of the rehearsal process. Not because it's not working but because it is. There is a week before the first preview and we are in position to ask 'can we make it better?', 'how far can we stretch this story?'

Those are the questions I want to be asking. I'm going to explore all of that tomorrow, as well as discovering new questions. 

Goodnight,

Padraic