Purchased the binders, printed scripts, punched holes, and brought all to the first rehearsal. First read through, Monday, February 7, 6:30, entire cast called.
First :30 minutes was an discussion/overview of the playwright festival with Beth Wood and Lindsay Carter. Contracts were distributed to actors. Discussion of workshop production a Black Box (+).
David Todd came by to check the reading out and give feedback. And at 7:00pm we were underway. The whole of it took :84 minutes give or take an interruption or two. And, of course, it was good to hear the full emanating voices from real people: as opposed to some thing clanking around in my head.
We broke for :10 minutes and Todd and I agreed to meet up at Gypsy Bean tomorrow to talk about the reading and the script. After break, Zoldessy outlined the plan for the rest of the week, which included his approach to getting the play up: blocking, blocking, blocking. (For those of my readers who aren’t theater people, blocking is figuring out where actors will be and how they will move in the space.) Zoldessy’s goal is to get Patterns fully blocked by Wednesday, February 16th. That’s a tight schedule and given the weirdness of my play: ambitious.
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The second production meeting was breezy and quick. No one at this point has entered rehearsals, so there is really nothing to report. Zoldessy was not there, but even if he was around there’s still only speculation about what’s coming.
Brief conversation about video in Patterns, specifically, an endorsement from Raymond that it should be present in the workshop production, if not as a fully-blown piece (with live and canned — produced — video), at least to get a sense of what the play will be like with that stuff in there.
Afterwards, playwrights, CPT, NEOMFA pow-wow about certain assumptions that have been made all around. This includes some things suggested by me in a previous post. I won’t go into details on this, as they aren’t for open discussion, but suffice it to say there was a clearing of the air and an understanding was reached. In this respect I’m confirmed again in my conviction that open, frank discussion/communication goes a long way to cutting off misguided assumptions (wherever they may lie). Unfortunately, open and frank communication is uncommon, a fact to which my wife will attest.
Looking forward to February 7th when rehearsals begin and the real task of getting the play made comes in earnest.
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