Think of a happy place…

I’m excited about this thing too. It’s finally coming together. Having the whole script is really comforting. We went through a lot of stuff to get here. Thanks to our extensive research we knew what we were doing– exactly what happiness was according to those who thought they knew. I wasn’t exactly sure that I knew what it was, but we wrote our Statements of Intention anyway, and more ideas soon flooded in. Now we knew pretty much where we were headed. Improvising, workshopping etc didn’t really work for us although we did try it a few times. We found that we didn’t really know where we were going once we started and it all just ended up repeating itself and we just sort of stopped, having got nothing constructive done. So the scripting came before the ideas of exactly how it would go. Once we had a basic idea for a scene, we acted that out and then somebody would have an idea and we would add that or decide on something else, depending on what was appropriate. After many extended due dates for our working script, we finally had one. Much aditing happened after that (and is still happening occasionally when we find something doesn’t really work eg props etc). the major rehersals have just begun. Now is crunch time and we really need to get cracking and rehearse this thing to be the best that it can be. Apparently it’s and A+ script, so the rehearsing is what is going to make or break our marks. I really need to work on my expressive skills to improve my performance and not get embarrased about things so easily. We can do this thing if we put our all into it and I know we can!

Alyssa