For Worse: Feedback from Stacey on her monologue. Engineering these things for audience participation is tricky.
Tag: Listening
Getting feedback.
effulgence, flink, whelming
Mother Antonia: Phone call with Anya to hear her thoughts & questions. A foray into the CSJ’s digital archive to try to get a better handle on the limits on where and when the Sisters could leave the house; the Sister at the reading last night pointed out that the community tended to be pretty...
to-do list
The Last Game: Talked with Heather H. about her observations of/suggestions for the script. Among other thoughts, she raises the idea of a second act set some decades into the future. This doesn’t click for me; though it’s difficult to pick apart how much it fails to click on its own merits, and how much...
reading M. Antonia
Mother Antonia: Script reading for the St. Kate’s alumnae relations department. A tough crowd – hard to read – but they said afterward that they were absorbed by the piece, and they had cogent things to say about it. It’s both intimidating and satisfying to present material to subject matter experts. One of the alumnae...
not nothin’
The Last Game: Trying to sketch out Dori’s side of the story – her Hamlet to 23 & 24’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Reading up a little on deregulation in the early 80s. Everything Looks Like A Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: Reading scheduled for Friday.
on not finding what you don’t know you’re looking for
Mother Antonia: Sent off draft 2. Sometimes when I’m doing a project that’s heavy on research there will be some little factoid that I painstakingly puzzle out, only to find that it was presented explicitly in some other source I had already read. Today I had that experience with my “discovery” that S. Ste. Helene...
flash forwards
Everything Looks Like A Face: Rough Cuts presentation of the scenes in mosaic order. Last night, for the presentation in chronological order, I felt the audience was almost wholly with us throughout; this time, less so. But judging from the comments, a number of people “got it” – we don’t always experience life in chronological...
I think she’s gonna fly, Orville
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?
whew!
Mother Antonia: the folks at St. Kate’s who commissioned the piece are ok with the direction I’m taking it. Next draft due 3/28.
impending
Everything Looks Like A Face: Responding to material from Elizabeth; working with her on a postcard blurb for the Rough Cuts performance.