Marie Murphy Spring Play

We’ve done a TON of work on the show in the past two weeks.  We’ve moved permanently into our home on the stage, and our understudies are getting a good workout.  We had tentatively set all the blocking for the show (movement), but then, due to some visual challenges that our stage setup creates (the eye level of the audience is at the actors’ feet, and makes it hard to see cast in the back two rows of classroom seats onstage), I’m experimenting with new seating arrangements and seating directions.  SO, everything we thought we had hammered out may go the way of the do-do bird.  We’ll see.  So far, the cast has been very patient with this process.  I’m hoping that, with the expertise of Ms. Kozak, the technical director, that we might find a good solution soon, so that our blocking can be cemented.

Also, we’re still discussing wording options.  Our cast spent way too much time today discussing contemporary figures who have made public declarations, and then were proven to have been outright lying.  Love to hear everyone’s examples.  Mine was Mark Sanford:  ”I was hiking in the Appalachians.”

Anyhow, I personally, am very excited, tired, and anxious to get meaty with the kids on character and interpretation once lines are memorized after spring break.  Blog on!

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