Our first week of rehearsals started off much differently than I've ever started a show before. Instead of the usual round of table work and then jumping immediately into blocking, we started by running the entire show all the way through, using whatever blocking we wanted. We did this for a number of reasons, the first being, as I mentioned before, the fact we've been sitting on the characters and script for a while now. In our time off we still talked about the show and the characters. Derrick wanted us to just get up on our feet and let it out, and use what he saw to guide rehearsals from there.
It was a great relief just to be able to let the show out for once and see it in its entirety. We'd read the show over before, but there's something very different about getting up and doing it. Sure, there was a lot of stumbling, but it was great for all of us involved.
After our dinner break, we came back to start in on getting the blocking down for the first scene. On Sunday, we picked back up with the rest of the scenes, and actually got the entire show sketched out during the first two days.
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