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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • maybe - maybe if they could make it good enough. But right now they’re struggling to

    • make two actors appear in the same scene, while keeping the same clothes and characteristics
    • say the line that’s given to them without changing it
    • add any emotion whatsoever
    • speak or act in any negative way
    • portray crimes
    • keep the same voice
    • not move their mouths in unison when someone else is speaking
    • make any kind of unusual movement
    • keep objects from disappearing
    • not make objects they’re talking about appear in the scene
    • change volume
    • use the correct eyeline (look at the right person, not look down the barrel of the camera
    • not phase through solid objects

    and that’s before you even get into things like subtext, irony, sarcasm, equivocation, stylistic choices, accents…










  • As we run the run of the route in rehearsal, I run the company’s schedule so the show runs on time, the engine runs and the lights run off backup power while the road runs north along a river that runs high and the dye might run in the rain, and as the contract runs a year and a rumor runs through town, I run for office to keep the operation running smoothly, avoid a run on supplies, keep late cues from running over, prevent us from running out of time or letting costs run up, run through notes and run them by the team, run tests and run the numbers, run lines until they run together, run a tight ship so nothing runs afoul of the rules, run risks we can afford, run hot when we must, and keep the whole run unbroken.