Day 19

Today was a loooong time coming (for CJ) he FINALLY sat down and typed out his improv'd monologues. It was tough for him to solidify his words (even though nothing is set in stone yet). I practiced my monologues in our rehearsal space using some of the inspiration from our character work yesterday...then...

WE DROVE TO NYC TO VISIT THE SPACE! CJ drove almost the whole way there! (This is a big deal because he is new to driving and new to stick shift!) I took over in the NYC area for some serious traffic and crazy drivers. Long story short, stressful driving, no parking, and an overpriced parking garage later we made it safe and sound without any damage to my beloved car. More importantly, we made it to the IAM space ready to go. There we met Meaghan, who was beyond awesome in answering all of our questions about lighting, tables, chairs, and blocking out windows. There is a beautiful big window in the space that is awesome in every other way (except when you are trying to do a theatre piece with cool lighting and you can't get full black out from the city streets). She showed us that we could pull down the projector and save a lot of time and effort by using the huge projector instead of buying literally a TON of fabric. We feel great about the space and the set up...it is becoming real. We really are doing a show!!

On the way home we stopped at handy dandy WalMart to get the best and most important gadget in the whole piece: tap on/off extension cord. This literally makes our piece completely conducted by us! Part of our goal with creating Vacant Lots was to find out if a theatre piece can be made and performed by 2 people on a low budget, and this gadget is really helping us achieve that goal! This takes us one step closer to being able to do our own tech while acting! Here's a picture just so you get the idea. Basically we can tap this button with our feet and get both of our lights to black out without having to perfectly time and count silently "1, 2, 3, light off." EPIC. We were so excited the second we got home we tried it out just to make sure it worked (and it did!).


                                     Also, we're taking tomorrow off. Relaxation (and peach pie).

                                                                                                          -Tina