Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Never Finished
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Blog: "We’ve done it. We’ve opened. What does that necessarily mean for actors? At this point in my career getting past opening means now having a firm blueprint for my character’s path in the play that I no longer have to worry about changing. It also means that now I can continue to get more and more comfortable with the complexities of the technical elements of the show, in this one there are many, and focus even more closely on deepening each moment I have in the play. With time and repetition come confidence and the freedom to play and find even more effective ways of telling the story. An actor’s work is truly never finished."
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I can see how the actors feel that their process is never really complete. For the design team there is certainly an end date, once the show opens, the creative team leaves, and allows the show to run with the actors, stage manager, and the run crew. I wonder what things would be like if the lighting designer came in a month into the run and changed scene 4? It would be completely ridiculous. It is because the actors have more work than the creative aspects to deal with, and once they have spent the rehearsal process creating. They then have the run to deal with the technical elements perfecting their craft.
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