The thick of it

So we're hitting our stride with rehearsals. It's pretty incredible to return to a piece you've done before and work on it as if for the first time. We're finding all kinds of moments that we didn't before, but I guess that's what putting a piece under the microscope of rehearsal can do for it. We've been progressing slowly through the piece moment by moment, beat by beat and really digging into it. It's amazing to look at a clock after rehearsing for what seems like twenty minutes and hour and a half has gone by.

I do have to say I love this piece and am really looking forward to bringing it back into New York. My first experience with long form monologues was doing The Zoo Story all those years ago; the story of Jerry and the dog is the moment when you can feel the audience start to squirm a little bit . . . when you tighten the screw and make people wonder: wait a minute what is this? I think Like a Sack of Potatoes has that element to it, it begins a little lighter and then spirals into a much darker story. It's awesome to be on stage and experience those moments when you feel the audience turn from laughing-happy to 'uh-oh'.

I think all of my pieces have that to some extent, maybe the piece about O'Neil's father less so, but certainly the other four pieces do.

Getting the postcards ready, should have a proof back today. And then we'll see who we can get out for this. It's always nice to have an audience!