Big week of rehearsals for us. This is when you are forced to eat a shwarma from Bucharest Grill instead of a meal at home. When you're racing around from job to other job to rehearsal to home to sleep. Scheduling sleep is important and necessary at this point.
We're throwing everything at the actors at this point...makeup, costumes, set, lights, sound, everything. And the challenge is always that you have to have everything memorized in your head. "Where does this block go? What makeup and costume am I in for the next scene? Where do I enter?" It's the nature of the biz and both Peter and Kelly are doing great work!
Sara's been coming up with some very interesting makeup options. As you could guess from the title we need really GRUESOME looking injuries. She's tried four or five different recipes for blood. The first was hair gel, lubricant, red food coloring, and water. In the mixing the bowl, it looked great. But when it's applied to fabric, it bleeds out to a pink color...looks fake. But I think we found our winner: Sugar free chocolate syrup and red poster paint! What's great about that is that it has that deep, almost brown looking color. And the best part, is that it washes out!
Brian has moved and focused all the lights. We'll be battling the other events that will be in that space so we have to constantly be moving and refocusing the lights before and after we're in there. But it'll all be worth it. The big challenge is altering the lights that are all focused on a stage and changing it for the round. Our saving grace is that we're in such a small space that we can light it effectively with six to eight lights. Actually, our big saving grace is having Brian, who's a wiz with all things technical and has recently been nominated for a Wilde Award for his lighting at Michigan Shakespeare Festival last year. He's great!
We'll be running like mad until we open. Only 10 days til opening! All the hard work will be worth it and we'll get to rest in 11 days.
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