Friday we moved into our dressing rooms to start the first of several days in our costumes for tech rehearsals. Jessica Ford designed our costumes and has given us some marvelous garments in which to live the lives of our characters on stage. The silhouette of the period is relatively simple but the fabrics are [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
On The Set
September 12, 2007 – 1:39 am
Wednesday we arrived for our first of two days of spacing rehearsals. I’m not sure I’ve ever been involved in a spacing rehearsal. Usually the first day we’re in the theatre we’re also in costume with the lights and sound technicians starting their work with actors on stage. Every director has a different way of [...]
In The Theatre
September 2, 2007 – 5:28 pm
Tuesday was our last day in the rehearsal hall. We ran the play once more, this time for ourselves. I had feelings of excitement that we were taking the next step, apprehension that maybe we weren’t ready, sadness to leave the space that now felt so safe, and disbelief that three weeks have gone by [...]
