Yesterday was a challenge. We had three actors missing for most of the rehearsal. As I was once told on a construction site: sometimes you just gotta piss with the dick you got. That's exactly what we did.
We ran through a couple sketches that we hadn't blocked and hadn't run through in quite some time: Mark's "The P Word" and Benhur's "More than Enemies." "Enemies" was a crowd favorite, and it is some very funny stuff. One of the fun things about this process is when we block something for the first time. The actors have their take on the movements their characters should have in the context of the script, Joe will have the actors try different things, and (every once in a while) we writers come up with something useful. "Enemies" was one of those sketches where the suggestions were flying around, and the end result was pretty damn good. We also saw Joe execute a perfect cartwheel. Oh, yes, he did.
We also tried a new staging for Laura's "Original Jewish Mother." This involved using a pillar that is off the stage. Sorry, can't really divulge why needed to use this pillar, because that would give away too much. It worked, and it will look even better when the lights are being adjusted during an actual show. (During rehearsal, the pillar is in the shadows.)
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| Dan, wearing his shawl. |
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| Some pillar action. |
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| More pillar action. |
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| Don't know the point of this picture. Oh well. |
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