Typically, the day after the show closes, the director’s blog entry is about how great the show was, how sad it is that it’s over, what wonderful memories we all have of it, and so on. All of these things are true, and I will indeed write that post, right after I finish this one. In […]
It Can Be Used As A Bracelet
So we open tonight. We are ready to do it. I look forward to it. And before we do that, a few things have to be done. I have already crossed off the first item on my List Of Things To Do: I have done battle once again with the most important, the most beautiful, […]
Melos+ Drama
So we had our tech rehearsal last night. Apart from the fact that I forgot to rehearse what is perhaps our most important sound cue–never mind, we’ll get it tonight–it really went much better than I had feared. The set changes are going very well. Also, Irish playwrights love language so much that they don’t […]
That Was A Flash Of Genius
Constant readers of this blog will recall that about a month ago, I posted about the fact that we were getting to work on incorporating the frame. I expressed some trepidation about the fact that we were adding something new to Wilde’s work of art, and my occasional wish that I had not decided […]
Venus Emerges
We are in the middle of another productive and enjoyable set build weekend! I have to go back and paint in about half an hour, but here are some pictures of what we did yesterday: This is the fireplace panel. Meara, our color chemist, mixed the slate blue color for the upper wall, which I […]
The Triumph of Something
We have reached the magical point in the show life cycle when the number of things about the process that I can actually control and/or do myself begins to shrink. It starts, at this point, to be more about letting other people do their thing with props or lights or sound or the set. […]