When I’m in rehearsal, everything else gets put on hold. This is my explanation for the lack of blog action. Houses remain untidied. Food becomes a series of takeaways, sandwiches and whatever is in the freezer. Family and friends are neglected I’ve got a cast of 17 and a creative team of 10 – do I need more social interaction?! No.
We finished in the rehearsal studios yesterday. (What a pleasure it has been to rehearse at the Jerwood Space). The creative and technical side of the operation have moved to Stratford Circus to do creative and technical things. I’m not called until tomorrow morning. We start technical rehearsals with the cast tomorrow afternoon.
There is not a lot a director can do at the get in, apart from fret and interfere and irritate the creative and technical team. So I have a day off –that is, if finishing the programme and writing interim reports for funders and chasing up people who haven’t RSVP-ed to press night invitations counts as a day off.
We are in good shape. We’re ready to move to the next stage. (Excuse the pun). It’s exciting.
One of the reasons we’re in good shape is that we’ve now run the show 4 times. The first stumble through was just before our Christmas break. The first stumble through is always just about getting through it. Anything else is a bonus. Nerve wracking but incredibly useful for everyone. The ensemble discovered just how much work they have to do and how precisely their scene shifting needs to be choreographed, as the world mutates around Faustus. Mephistopheles and Faustus got a sense of the arc of their journeys. I got to see what worked and what didn’t.
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