Imaginary Invalid v.

Actor warm-up...

We finished day two of tech last night, however, I walked away from that day frustrated with myself for not understanding how the light is working on the set. I am beginning to see it more, but the paper choices I made are not all working. It may be a matter of color, but I am not sure if it is...? I also came away from yesterday disappointed in the design team as a whole. We did not communicate to each other as well as I have been hoping we would or could. As Rob said yesterday, "We are trying to blend design ideas together rather than finding a single direction to work as a whole." I agree that we have done this, but I am not sure at this point if that can be corrected. We never had any design meetings longer than 1 hour, and we never met as a whole group after the pre-liminary scenic and costume design were made. We never had any design or production notes taken or plans about what we were going to address in these meetings. It has always been a kind of check in and never a growing of ideas and exploring.

I have never worked through a tech where I received so little information from other designers and especially from the director. I assumed that what was being seen was understood as the cue for the show, but apparently all the cues that I have written except for the prologue and into Act I scene 1 are not being conisdered as the final cue. I don't know when we are going to write the final cue if it was not this weekend. I know we have two more tech/design runs tonight, but they are essentially runs and not stop and go as we definitely need. Anyway, I should have been talking more with Dora, and asked her to come sit behind me so that we could collaborate...checked in with her that what we had written was good (as well as if it was good with the other designers)...and then moved on to the next cue. I wonder what the next step is...do we step through now and get the approval...do we step through and assume that the cues are good unless someone stops me. (That is what I was doing the last two days, but apparently that is not a good method)...any suggestions...???