Shrdlu, Rehearsal, The Adding Machine

Took two days (weekend) off from rehearsal, and it’s really seemed to help. Also, I was anxious about memorizing all the lines, so I focused on that this weekend, and I’ve made good progress, i.e., the final big chunks at the end of scene 1.

Also, more hunting for a coach, though nothing yet -- I think $$ for a coach will be better spent than voice @ Herbert Berghof Studios. I can always do voice here in the loft during the day, 20min each morning, just to increase my vocal stamina.

Shrdlu

Shifts and contrasts – at critical transitions (i.e., taking about the present to remembering the past), I seem to naturally shift from being an adult to more of a child. It’s also more clear what each wants from Zero.

Problems: During rehearsal at home, exploration really, these transitions happen quite naturally (at least some times), but at Ron’s place, in rehearsal with Dan, part of my attention/effort is going to trying to hit these transitions, and I’m finding it distracting, e.g., “oh – I forgot, at this point, he’s more child-like,” and the millisecond I think that, I’m out of the moment, aware that what I’m really trying to do is act, which is exactly what I’m trying to do when I think that, i.e., I’m not Shrdlu anymore, trying to get something from Mr. Zero, trying to communicate something, but rather I’m Christopher trying to “make” something happen . . . hummm. Ok, another classic mistake to learn to avoid.