Pooped

I never can write during tech, but here goes. Got off to a rough start. I decided to restage the fight at the end of scene two as I wanted it to cover more ground and I felt that, well, one of the actors might hurt himself - he's got a bad knee. So this new one is standing and covers the stage. I think actors tend to get a little finicky at this point in the process - they know for a little while anyway, the focus is going to be lights, sound and costumes and not the acting. So - I wasn't surprised by the finickiness - but at the same time, I just didn't really want to hear it. Oh well.

And then there were gunshots. Which of course terrify me. We are being safe but come on. These are working firearms! Everyone seems cool about it. Cool, alert and prepared but there's nothing I can say except the presence of these guns makes me abit nervous.

Then the lights: they haven't been completely hung and focused which is scary. Joe is trying to match the abstracted set - and started out by going very naturalistic which wasn't really working.

Sets sound and costumes are in goof shape. The tricky bit will be lowering the bridge which ways a ton. Its on a winch now so I am assured it will get lowered easily. I am praying.

I've loved working with andromache. She's great: so smart, positive and a joy to be around. I am glad we got this one to work out!

We staged all of act one. We will pick things up at the top of act two and work through the transition when we can - as soon as the bridge is in place.