February 10th, 1997
Oh boy.
It's Monday late and here we are.
There was a closing night of a show at The Annoyance......and I watched it and
experienced the party afterwards. It was a lot of fun. This is a late, scotch ridden
entry because I know there's a possibility that I won't get to enter anything in the
next 3 days. Maybe I will..one never knows.
I am completely exhausted.
I feel good about the show but better about the prospects of what it will become in
the next couple of days. I cut a scene that lied flat today and offered the opportunity
to do a scene in its place. I just decided I don't have the energy to do this right now.
Feb. 11th
It is the next morning. I am getting ready to go to one of two rehearsals I have left
on this show. I am typing very quickly right now and if I make a mistake I won't correct it cause I'm in a big hurry. Yesterday I cut the one scene that is dragging
down the 2nd act. When I cut a scene, if I can , I like to offer an altenative. And
the alternative I offered the show can use. Instead of another character generated
relationship scene.....a montage demonstrating the life of the guy in the coma and
use that as an opportunity to have more connectiviity with the content of the show.
We started working on it yesterday and will continue today. In the next 2 days I will
be concentrating on the following:
1. The montage I just mentioned..which has two tries to see if it will work.
2. Doing a stop and start of all the material in the show in order to fix moments
in scenes and in order to tech it and get from scene to scene.
3. Providing thematic content to the show as well. Now that we have a guy's thoughts
be the show I want to make that and everything in the show mean something greater...
I want to spell out or declare thematic qualities.
For example, people have to adapt to survive, nothing really changes, all people are just getting by, confrtont your fear., etc.....these are some themes in the show...I
want to exploit them ......no , declare them.
4. Cut the show down....it's still 10 minutes too long.
5. Other shit.
Right now my jaw is clenched and it well be a hellish 2 days (but fun) and people will
snap and I will too. I told the cast the other night that we're in danger because the\
show is good enough that we could relax but we must not.....we must work even harder
to bring it in. I am confident and scared and fuck me just intense. I get this way in
every process I'm involved in and always forget that this is the fucking way it feels.
Last night we had a party at The Annoyance.....I barely remember a single confersation.
All a dream. I hope I didn't make any promises. I'm off to have breakfast at Nookies.
Fuck a duck
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