Forbidden Phoenix - Edmonton Day 2
Okay, so now we're into the hard work of the rehearsal period. Ron is backtracking from the top of act 2 and trying to clean up the motivation and decisions of all the characters. It's vital work, but it's just tough to do when there's singing and fighting rehearsals going on at the same time.
I missed most of the rehearsal today, because I spent time at S. Bruce Smith, talking to the animated grade seven students about my writing. Then I had a media interview, and now I have to get ready for the Children's Literature Roundtable meeting this evening. This week has really been a melding of my two loves: fiction and theatre.
I hope to be able to sit in on rehearsal tomorrow. Ron's plan was to tackle the revised Iron Dragon scene. I gave him permission to cut lines and shift things around to suit the blocking of the scene. I kind of look at this process as if I were creating a shooting script for film. Once I see what they've done with my scene, I can tweak and finalize the dialogue.