Busy, busy

Yesterday was a very busy day for me.

At 11 am we met in the breezeway to block the Pot Scene. Father Martin is sick and wretched in that scene. I asked the director how far he wanted me to take that and he replied for me to take it as far as I want. License.

I ran out of that rehearsal and Alice and I moved some more stuff out of the old dwelling and into the new. We are almost finished with our move.

Then I scooted back to the theater…..and I had misremembered the schedule and was an hour early so I wandered off for a while. Then back to the theater to block Arrival.

Once again I am having this eerie sort of déjà vu. Ananias Dare, Old Tom and Governor White are all in that scene and I have played all of those roles. I know their lines better than I know the one line I give in the scene. Odd to be interacting with them.

After that I went home for an hour…and back to the breezeway for First Christmas. I coughed and hacked and was wretched some more. Easy peasy.

I went back home for dinner then back to the theater at 7 o’clock for Prologue – Tavern.

Once again I am in a lot of scenes but don’t say anything. Not that I am complaining.

This morning we sketched in Small Skirmish (which used to be known as Little Battle – it follows Governor’s Farewell).  Father Martin gets to defend some women with a pitchfork. I grapple with an Indian who knocks me back onto my bed, is about to impale me when he’s struck from behind by a woman and the two of us dispatch him. Father Martin – Death Priest!

4 pm 

The first Breezeway rehearsal for Large Assembly. The Crowd was split up into what has been variously called positives/negatives, pro/con, go stay, etc. This is the scene at the end where the Colonists, faced with being captured by the Spanish, must decide whether to surrender or fight! Oddly, staying and fighting means abandoning the fort and wandering off into the wilderness. It is a very emotional scene. Father Martin staggers out of his death bed to say "Amen!"