We're back into the period pieces so quickly after Ghosts! Currently we have Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in rehearsal and I, Blake, am directing the 1800's cast. I'm extremely excited to be working again with Matt Klan, Carrie Colden, Peggy Queener, & Chris Simon. The poor souls
enduring my browbeating for the first time is are Aref Sayed, Nick Santasier, Bobby Carroll, and Phare Play's own Eddie Rodriguez.
So the group is having a blast. Doing an accent play always provides plenty of fun because most of our accents were abhorrent on day one and now we are rocking out with them. I have to say that the most interesting part of blocking this play is figuring out cleaver ways not to make the extreme height different between Matt and his two love interests (Carrie and Peggy) as UNobvious as humanly possible. Kymm doesn't have this problem in her period. In mine, the women only wore flat shoes, so I'm s.c.r.e.w.e.d.
Anyway, aside from watching Carrie have to practically crawl up Matt for kisses, things are going extraordinarily well and I hope you'll all get out to see this phenomenal piece by one of my favorite writers, Tom Stoppard.
(Anyone wanna explain why he isn't Sir Tom Stoppard yet?)