Keshav Eldurkar

Something Taylor and I were having trouble with before the dress rehearsals was making the space best-suited to represent the interaction between Callie and Peter. At first, we had six chairs lined up side-by-side, but then Fabi gave us the idea to put two rows of chairs at a 90° angle so that we don’t have to put ourselves in awkward positions when talking with each other. After that, the ideas just kept coming and we pretty much set up the entire set and designed most of the blocking based around that. In summation: Thanks Fabi.

I wouldn’t say we felt confident going into the dress rehearsal on Tuesday, but we weren’t necessarily stressed out either. I think both of us really needed to hear what other people thought about the scene and our decisions regarding the blocking and given circumstances. We really didn’t know what to do about the pauses and how long we should make each one to truly draw out the awkwardness that should be present between both of us without it becoming excessive. The advice from everybody and Rebecca actually helped this question and many others we didn’t even know we had. We're really excited to take the advice and move on to the entire scene!