Quick and Dirty

Saturday Jessica and I laid down the quick and dirty version of the voice. We both read and recorded but made the big decision to have Jessica read and be the woman while I’ll take the ‘rocking’ role. I’m really excited about this actually. Jessica was better at finding the colorless place in which this piece has to fall. The asymptote that we had found in the rehearsals before may have too much variation. We lose the rhythmic motion and melody of the piece if we let (even the smallest pigmentation in.) Where we go from here is finding HOW to shade in order to find the neutral beckttian movement of the piece.

The first PERIOD is what we’re having to the most trouble with. Especially in figuring out how to hone in and dig deep from right off the bat. What I think we’ll do is run the piece at least three times before going into the actually recording. The monotonous style is found as we define our sphere and plough deeper into the thickness, which takes a few times running it.

What we found surprising is that as you work more and more on a piece you tend to find more and more in it. It gets thicker and muckier as you trek through. Yet with Beckett we’ve found that the deeper we get into it the LESS we want. We’ve been stripping down more and more each time—attempting to find the naked truth of the words. Let the words do it themselves. Again, like Beckett said, the perfect play would be without any actors. We’re now attempting in the latter half of our work with this piece to find the bare minimum, to expose ourselves through this woman completely.


After a May Day break we're back--More rehearsal today paired with sublet hunting for Jessica. Fun.
Go team.