it’s all good

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It really is.

I’ve been in rehearsals and it was fab. The play is going from strength to strength with the input of the team.

As I’ve mentioned before I don’t put in directions if I can help it, I don’t even think of the movement of the characters as I shepherd them through the story. I am not that sort of writer, my imagination can only see so far.

Psyche and the actors have worked out some really interesting scenarios and ways of presenting the surreal moments in the play including a shock for Bamber. Bits have been added, shifted, speeded up, slowed down until the space within the set and also between lines and characters has become defined.

Each section of script is played with, improvised, bounced back and forth until it sticks and sometimes it sticks in a place I didn’t know was there and that’s exciting, sometimes it’s scary but the end result is good. Rehearsals are the process of discovery. When you have controlled your created world with words and structure it is kind of liberating to free it again. Sometimes as a writer you want to snatch it back up into your arms but it’s a trust thing, if it’s got legs it will walk and run in a new space. Better pray you haven’t create a club footed, dependent monstrosity which will fall flat on it’s face at the first sign of freedom.

One of my favorite bits is the song in the play. It was Psyche’s idea to have it as a song rather than a monologue and it works brilliantly. I wish it had been my idea. I love watching that scene, the dream like quality it has which has been developed in the rehearsal space. Chris’s portrayal of John and his song is wonderful and makes you ache with pity and empathy for a character that too often behaves like an idiot.

I am lucky and I am happy.  I am not nervous and I am not anxious. Not today, no way.

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