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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Awesome Cast

With every rehearsal I become more and more convinced that our cast is amazing. They've all jumped headfirst into this show and devoted so much to us and we're only halfway through production.
The talent that we have is really quite something as well. We have one actress who's taken a character that was totally flat and uninteresting on paper and made her completely likable, relatable, and real. There's several actors who have taken some very undeveloped minor characters, thrown themselves into them completely and created three dimensional, kooky people. One actress in particular is actually changing James and my perception of the entire plot, which is something since we've been eating, drinking, and dreaming this script for almost six months now.
We also have a lot of great actors because they stay in character when they're not talking on stage. They keep adding expressions and gestures without us even suggesting that they do anything there. It works well because we have a number of actors that are on stage a lot. One is on stage without dialog for about three quarters of the show. Yeah, you heard me. Things like that are a challenge for James and I because we don't want to put all of it on the actors and we try and think of something for eight or nine people to do. It's hard okay.
-T.J. Mercer

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