3.2.12 - Rehearsal 3

This morning we had a design meeting Andy, Jasia, myself, the set, costumes, and lighting designers, the shop director, and the technical director were all there.  Jenney showed up her set plans and we talk about some of the possible visual elements of the show: projections, things falling from the sky, plexi glass, a scrim.  Afterwards Andy and I talked about the main characters in the play and possible narrative arcs.

We started rehearsal by doing more Viewpoints with the desks in rows.  We added our gestures of doubt, trust, and betrayal.  We worked with tempo; then we added short lines that answered the question, “What is the goal of education?”  As a performer, it was great to have so many elements build on top of each other because they all started interacting in different ways.  When you didn’t know what to do, you had many layers of elements to focus your attention on.  The cast was playing with each other, listening to each other, and some very cool things were added.  Then we did a variation with Jeffrey telling a story at a podium down right while we did Viewpoints.  Even though I was in it, it seemed great.  It’s very satisfying to have days of work build on each other and all come into play in a complex moment.  For the rest of rehearsal we showed each other new moments we have prepared and made variations.  One of the things I love about Moment Work is that the moments give you the information you need.  From Sam’s moment, we learned it would be great to have bleachers integrated in the set.  From Madeline’s moment, we learned we should use the story of her favorite teacher having to leave because of mold.  We did a very funny improv, where the three guys and the three girls sat on stairs and were teenagers bitching about their teachers.