This is so freakin' cool!

So many amazing things are happening at rehearsal.

I am jealous of every 'witches-only' rehearsal - Joan, Treacy, Leontyne, and Julia are working out this amazing movement stuff w/shadows and lights and fabric, and then I come in at the end of these rehearsals to integrate my text/movement w/the witch scenes. And they give me the shivers.

Carla has given us basic staging for all of the fight sequences - I count 5 onstage deaths. Things are brutal, scary in places, and dangerous looking. Last night's rehearsal was full of people saying 'ohmigod that's gross' 'cool!' 'that looks so real' etc.

Two more freakin' cool people that you need to know about - Claire, our AD (assistant director) - she and Joan are constantly bouncing ideas off each other, and Alicia, our stage manager, in charge of scheduling, communications, generally keeping track of everybody, and on top of all that, she shuttles a few of us back and forth from BART before and after rehearsal. The things these ladies do don't seem outwardly as exciting as broadswords and shadow projection, but are ultimately what keep us all moving forward on this adventure - the coolest part of all.