Off Book!

Off book for Act I – how actors dread the off book day. In reality it went well. The work they did Thursday on the hauling and tying really paid off. What the actors have to start doing now is invest in the show. They are creating the world for the audience and if they drop it, even for a second, phone in the hauling or any of the space object work, it collapses. By investing I also mean buying into it themselves – seeing the ropes, the pins, the masts, the sails. If you are spilling a bucket of water on the deck that others are swabbing – we have to see the bucket, we have to see where you are throwing the water, and we have to believe the deck is getting cleaner.