Today our thoughts are all technical and very far from the heart of the play. Sound levels, cues for entrances, maintaining performance-rhythms so that they are repeatable.
I often say to the actors, “You are not a prisoner of your choreography” – that is, we work as ensemble to make a world, not just an interconnected set of movements. So if something falls differently, you adjust, you acknowledge, you play with it. I urge them to awaken their sensitivities to everything that’s happening in the moment, rather than stick to established routines.
But today it’s time to go the other direction, make some decisions, make sure that people can be heard when they are supposed to be heard, seen when seen.