I started rehearsals for a new play this week We’re two nights in, and Courtney is stage managing, which is to say she’s stage managing her first show ever. When I came home from our first rehearsal I tossed my bag of bones (my body) on the couch next to Larry and recounted every detail, then worried that Courtney was regretting her choice—her executive fantasy about wearing a headset backstage, briskly calling out “Ten minutes til house!”, booking our director with dinner plans and cars waiting out front, dashed by the grim reality of weeknight evenings spent sitting on a folding chair in a cement warehouse where the door alarm sounds a midi Ave Maria and neighborhood geese gather to fight on the roof at 7:45pm sharp. The reality of using my thermal mug of water from home as the wine bottle in scene 1 and the cup of instant coffee in scene 5, the way the only way to learn the turns and beats of every scene is to do it again and again and again, on a school night.
Feel it out/split the difference
Feel it out/split the difference
Feel it out/split the difference
I started rehearsals for a new play this week We’re two nights in, and Courtney is stage managing, which is to say she’s stage managing her first show ever. When I came home from our first rehearsal I tossed my bag of bones (my body) on the couch next to Larry and recounted every detail, then worried that Courtney was regretting her choice—her executive fantasy about wearing a headset backstage, briskly calling out “Ten minutes til house!”, booking our director with dinner plans and cars waiting out front, dashed by the grim reality of weeknight evenings spent sitting on a folding chair in a cement warehouse where the door alarm sounds a midi Ave Maria and neighborhood geese gather to fight on the roof at 7:45pm sharp. The reality of using my thermal mug of water from home as the wine bottle in scene 1 and the cup of instant coffee in scene 5, the way the only way to learn the turns and beats of every scene is to do it again and again and again, on a school night.