Three rehearsals down. Of course, the early rehearsals are the hardest to get through - beyond recording the blocking once it's been set, there isn't much for me to do. But it's always an adventure - our silat instructor wasn't around today, so I've been giving the director plenty of free rein over what we work on. There's so much beauty in discovering what your fellow artists are capable of.
It's not like me to wax poetic this much. I've just been really lucky that nothing terrible has happened in this production so far. Aside from us not being able to find the paint the designer wanted - in the end she's going to mix rather than work straight. Clever people those designers. They can find a way out of almost any problem. Unless that problem is that actors who refuse to go in and see the costume shop. It's only partially the actor's fault. I would be inclined to blame it more on the university email system - never seems to get emails through on time.
I've had to keep reminding myself that the nightmare show I worked on last year was not the normal sequence of how a show goes. I keep thinking that something has to go wrong, and soon - maybe the director is going to change major parts of the script?! But normal people don't do that. Just one bad egg eh, ruins my work for a long time. At least I have a fantastic ASM who understands what I need. She already knows how this process works, and we''re constantly learning from each other, which makes everything way more fun. And we have the exact same text tone on our phones. Doesn't hurt that we're pretty much the same person. :P
I've been working on a baby blanket for my sister - fortunately this rehearsal process that been giving me plenty of time to work on it. Is that a good or a bad thing? To me, it's both.
Until next time.
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