The Balance
Watching a production take shape there is a tipping point where you know you've got a show. I'm not saying that it won't be a push for Sunday, but... by golly, i think we've got a show!
Especially being both writer and director it is exciting when an actor brings something to the story that you hadn't anticipated or that catches you off guard, or that you find compelling in a way that makes you forget that you know what happens next.
Probably the best part of being both writer and director is that when the director found that the writer was way up on high horse and had put in a speech at the end of the play that was totally unnecessary and got in the way more than anything... well, the director won. In being both I could let the writer be as neurotic about making sure that the audience "got it" as she wanted because the director was there to step in, visualize it, trust the audience and hack away at the script.
Especially being both writer and director it is exciting when an actor brings something to the story that you hadn't anticipated or that catches you off guard, or that you find compelling in a way that makes you forget that you know what happens next.
Probably the best part of being both writer and director is that when the director found that the writer was way up on high horse and had put in a speech at the end of the play that was totally unnecessary and got in the way more than anything... well, the director won. In being both I could let the writer be as neurotic about making sure that the audience "got it" as she wanted because the director was there to step in, visualize it, trust the audience and hack away at the script.
posted by Treadwell Theatre at 9:56 PM
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