Rehearsing

First day at the Uphams Corner rehearsal space. Awesome old Masonic building with high ceilings and secret passages. Really cool stuff. Also an old wrought iron elevator that no longer works, but looks amazing. We read through the script and started blocking some stuff. This show has been done so much that the blocking is pretty much set, so it's a bit annoying to get the blocking right off the bat without any organic exploration. The real challenge will be justifying everything I've been told to do, but it should keep me busy. The language is such a wonderful thing...really glad we have these texts to work with. We're performing "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Open Window" by Saki, "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton, "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry, and "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. Lots of blocking the next two days, with brush up on Saturday. Then we'll be getting off book and starting to run stories. The set is crazy...I can't believe we're taking the whole thing on the road. I'll try to get some pictures to give an idea. At least it's not like last year where they had a fully rotating stage that they transported! Well, now back to memorizing blocking.