Sunday - Day off! There's barely been a spare minute over the last 3 days as we begin to orientate ourselves now to preparing the performance for this coming Thursday. There has still been the daily classes in voice and movement but these are now more focused on material that will be used in the show. Yesterday afternoon was spent 'discovering' the masks we have made, followed by pieceing together the improvised scenes we have made so far to see how much of the story we are telling. It was suprising to see how much was actually there. There's lots to do as, unsuprisingly at this early stage, but I think we have something very interesting here. I've somehow ended up playing Prospero alongside a lovely French lady called Marie Pierre. I think we make quite a partnership as she is about 4 feet 10 inches tall! There's a wonderful actor musician here called Haka,, from Bosnia, a Footsbarn regular, whose providing some unbelievable music to the show.
There's a lot of reading to be done today to try and get Prospero's text in my body - but first a walk to nearby Vallon. A bientot!