Originally, Blake brought this project to me because he was also going to act in it, and since this is a play in two bits, the 1809 bit and the present day bit, it's one of the better shows to split between two directors.  There is only one scene which contains both time periods and only one actor who appears in both bits, there is no overlap for directors to give contrasting opinions to confused actors. 

It turned out after all that Blake couldn't actually be in the play due to work commitments, but at that point I was in love with the play so I still wanted to direct half of it.  Not all of it, not immediately after directing Ghosts, but half of it is perfect.

Blake and I argue over who has the easier half, which is funny because normally it would be "My job is harder!" "No, mine is!" but we are like, "My bit is easier, I have fewer actors!" "But my half is funnier, you have all that math!" "The math is totally interesting, and there is lots of funny stuff in mine, too!" "Nope, my half is the comedy half, your half is the information half,"  "You have complicated period costumes and I have an actual person from England so that's less dialect difficulties!" and on and on.  But what it comes down to is we both love our halves and our casts. 

The fun part is when we have rehearsals together on that last scene, which has happened twice.  It's like there is this whole other reality going on without our knowledge, which of course is exactly what the play is about.  The 1809 bit lives their lives and the present day bit tries to find out what happened back then, but obviously the past isn't aware of the future and the future only has the vaguest idea of the past. 

Only 200 years between them and so much information is hidden or missing or impossible to get, and so much of it is tied up in how people felt and what they thought, and of course, that only belongs to the moment.

It's the kind of show where you not only can laugh and be amused and entertained, but also learn about the second law of thermodynamics and Fermat's lasr theorum, it's got something for everyone!