Everything Looks Like A Face: Rough Cuts presentation of the scenes in chronological order. Audience particularly rapt for “Linny Won’t Talk To Me” and “I Wanted A Medal.” The big question: will the audience hang in there with us for the presentation in mosaic order tomorrow?
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
rehearsing faces
Everything Looks Like A Face: Attended rehearsal. Erika: Watched a video.
practicing pareidolia
Everything Looks Like A Face: attended a rehearsal of the songs.
connective
Everything Looks Like A Face: Wrote the narrative bits to link the songs together for Rough Cuts and sent them to the team. Erika: Watched another video on optimization.
patchwork
Erika: Watched a video. Largely motivated by not wanting to write “nothin'” for today. Mother Antonia: Took notes on Carroll et al. Research really does feel like patchwork some days. We (I) collect existing stuff and try to make patterns out of it.
on maxing out
Erika: Watched a video on optimization.
context is everything
Everything Looks Like A Face: Wrote a synopsis to be used at the Rough Cuts performance to put the songs in context. We have two potential ways to order the scenes: chronological, and what we’re calling “mosaic order” – linked by structure, subject matter or imagery. There are two Rough Cuts performances, so we’re planning...
nothin’
Nothin’.
yer basic
Infrastructure: Got a rejection. Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting at Nautilus with Elizabeth, Ben and Greg, the music director for the reading next week.
slow day
Erika: Did a few problems.