This morning started with a music rehearsal; our wonderful composer Paul Sportelli wasn’t in today, so Ben Carlson lead the cast through a vocal warm up. Then Yanna McIntosh took a seat at the piano and led everyone through their individual parts. Staging for the songs is the next challenge and we took a bit [...]
I knew the play was fierce, with a kind of gritty, intentionally flat use of language that is mercilessly naturalistic with none of the embellishments of American naturalism – say the self-conscious cadences and cut-offs of Mamet, the lyricism of Tennesse Williams, the tragic earnestness of Arthur Miller. Then, just when I’ve decided the language [...]
Working through a play is a forensic process, and table work is the first step. The next step is getting up on our feet, which takes us deeper into it. And that’s how we’ve spent the last few days.
The first thing the actors did is just warm up the space a bit – trying to [...]
An exciting first few days on Cloud 9. As always with Churchill, the writing is incredibly rich, funny, heart breaking and at times completely confusing. The terms of her arguments are not like a regular play, the action is not cause and effect in a traditional way. She challenges all your preconceptions and makes you [...]
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