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Cry Don't Cry rehearsals have begun
Submitted by Palmito on October 1, 2005 - 02:22We started CDC rehearsals (our shortened title for the piece) last Sunday, after many, many meetings between Christine and I, where we wandered back and forth between personal sharing, discussing structure and theme concepts, and general "Wouldn't it be cool if..." conversations.
It was a relevation to be on stage at the Shotgun Theatre - almost literally - it used to be a church. As part of their support for our lab proposal, Shotgun theatre provides space for rehearsals as long as it doesn't conflict with their main production - so for our first rehearsal we got to rehearse almost literally on the spare set of "Owners." During Balé Tech's previous projects, we rehearsed in a black-box theatre (which was inspirational at the time) and often in someone's house, a park or in a band / music rehearsal space (which is not necessarily inspirational, but the lingering cigarette-smoke smell reminded me of my days in a band....)
It was a relevation to be on stage at the Shotgun Theatre - almost literally - it used to be a church. As part of their support for our lab proposal, Shotgun theatre provides space for rehearsals as long as it doesn't conflict with their main production - so for our first rehearsal we got to rehearse almost literally on the spare set of "Owners." During Balé Tech's previous projects, we rehearsed in a black-box theatre (which was inspirational at the time) and often in someone's house, a park or in a band / music rehearsal space (which is not necessarily inspirational, but the lingering cigarette-smoke smell reminded me of my days in a band....)
