Present: Dale, Marc, Dan, Philip, Jeff B.
We started with I.9 and I.10. For I.9, the trick is going to be keeping the scene alive by focusing on what makes Martius our hero: he’s modest, he’s generous, he’s self-sacrificing. All his difficulties are in civilian life. Another problem, our constant one, is crowd control: who’s onstage and where are they?
Dale brought poles for everyone, and it rapidly became apparent that the whole show is going to be about leaning on poles unless we’re careful.
In I.10, Marc restored lines that Dale wanted to cut, on the grounds that the audience needed to have underlined for them the rancorous rivalry between Auf. & Cor.
We looped back to I.6 and played with that one some more, trying once again to keep Martius our hero.
We went outside to play with our poles and developed an idea for the Battle Ballet that would involve actual contact. Dale discovered that our cargo pants ride low, making it difficult to lunge. Marc is going to record some drumming tracks for us to work with.
In other news, Dale is still looking for fabric for the gates. He will try the awning place on the bypass next.
For Saturday: the Battle Ballet, and let’s begin to work on the Tribune scenes in I.1 and early act II.
It pretty much all happened just as he said.