Slipped into rehearsal tonight. This is the real, best privilege of the producer.
Mark Fullerton and Robert Agostinelli are working a scene. And it is hitting the trifecta – interesting ideas, funny moments and emotional notes well played.
There’s a moment when one character admits the vulnerability of potential obsolescence, something we all in some way fear, that our lives, our vocations, will lose meaning. Found myself touched by a moment I had already read numerous times.
Gotta love actors. (But don’t tell them – it’ll go to their head.)
More of them are arriving now, and I’m going to sit in for a while longer. Listen to Dawson Nichols giving script notes. Watch the next scene unfold. Need to soak up the energy of theatre in the productive moment.
Because, I’ll be honest (and any theatre practitioner that disagrees is being dishonest), producing a play is a difficult, strenuous, exhausting process. Producers and playwrights bicker. Actors put in long hours being hectored by directors. Every single one of us questions our participation in the process at least once.
And, damnit, it is totally worth it. This is just the best way to tell a story.
And we’ve got a damn good story here.
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