Tonight marked a crisis in confidence. Nothing I did seemed to be going well enough. The direction was shoddy, there were large gaps in the action and the cast seemed uninterested. I missed having my more experienced assistant director on hand telling me things are going to be ok.
My confidence wasn't helped by a comment from a cast member announcing they hated the play. Great. That makes me feel spectacular about myself.
So, all in all, I am not a fan of act two and I will have to spend a lot of time and effort trying to change it into something half decent. My plan for this show involves a great deal of choreographed movement. This will take a long time to get right. I just hope the cast have the discipline and focus to carry it off. In places I have introduced snippets of such movement to varying success.
Too many aspects of this show are out of my hands and the inner control freak does not feel reassured by this. I still am yet to hear back from the band, this makes me fingers twitch. Luckily a cast member has agreed to bring his guitar. Hopefully this shall improve things and make things gel a little better.
It is nice to see that the cast are bonding but it sure is lonely at the top. Last year they felt more like my friends, this year they are certainly my colleagues.
Tomorrow night we finish act 2, then the hard work will begin.
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