Today we had a cooking party! I walked into rehearsal and was greeted by the wonderful smell of baking chocolate chip cookies. We spent the day "being domestic" as Elizabeth put it and making delicious goodness for showcase guests. Some of them we have termed "crisps," as it is a more fitting label than "cookies," but we did take care of most of those to spare our attendees the crunch.
We began rehearsal today with a work-through of our opening scene (from Taming of the Shrew). Over the course of this rehearsal, which was all together too restrained at the outset, I was told to throw a temper tantrum, Mark was told to pick up Matt (but not like a princess, as was the original method), and Caroline was told to "act less." Ah, direction. All in all, it was an excellent time, and we actually had quite a bit more fun with that scene by the end of rehearsal than we had at the beginning.
Next came Twelfth Night: poetry, schmaltz, and guitar playing lulling melodies in the background. But with humor and invisible rose petals. After that, Adriana's monologue from The Comedy of Errors: Elizabeth and Becca worked on the extraordinarily rapid transition between Adriana vituperating her husband and pleading for his continued affection.
The Tempest scene was adorable. Elizabeth introduced us to the technical term for a theatrical illness: "the Disease of Pauses." She rapidly cured it and is sure to be known worldwide as a medical marvel within the coming decades.
We also picked our costumes today and did a stumble-through! The costumes took about fifteen minutes and were easy and colorful. The stumble-through also went amazingly smoothly, and we stopped only to plan entrances and exits. It took so little time that we were left with hours to figure out music to be used in the performance. Fiona Apple and others will be the basis for our serenades. :) Rehearsal ended on a musical and mellow note.
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