When the Second Act is Almost One Scene

Today will find us in the trenches of scene seven again which comprises half an hour of the second act. So much goes on here, so much is on the line, so much is laid bare that it can be overwhelming. It’s also an exhausting scene, the consequences of all actions reach a fever pitch and then must sustain that pitch before spectacularly breaking apart. I anticipate we’ll be spending a lot of time mapping out the network of betrayal, loss, risk and reward in this scene.

We are also dealing with a new play and though we’ve all been through several workshop drafts (some of us going on 10 plus drafts of scene seven) information that seems familiar can sometimes feel foreign once we are on our feet. I am enjoying this process of new discovery and I have the gift of expert actor brains collaborating with me to help unpack what can suddenly feel like a newly inscrutable moment.

Today we start the second half of the scene which includes a mother bound and gagged, a painful moment of intimacy, and the retaliation of the space itself.

Stumble it!