Sandrine Riveta: "It was just... It was a really special
time. We would do a show every second Saturday, and we'd pick the
setting and characters for the next show while we were striking the
latest one. So we were just constantly in this creative fugue, each show
like the cresting of a wave, then building momentum to the next. For
the two weeks between the shows we would work out our characters, their
histories, the performance of them. Then they'd all meet on stage on the
night of the show. So it was improv but with some design to it. Not so
much a goal, but a pathway, maybe?"
Josiah Stone: "We'd use this one
idea that Max got from a comic he loved, 'The Invisibles'. Each one of
the five characters would be sortof informed or built around one of the
elements. And their role in the play would represent that. Nothing
obviously symbolic, but a way to control the interplay a bit when we
were on stage..."
Milton Reddings: "To me it felt like we were involved
in this weird ongoing Live Action Roleplaying game."
Sandrine Riveta:
"But the best was the show. Spending the afternoon setting up the
basement of the church, the table for ticket sales, putting on a pot of
coffee. Running through the lighting cues. Stretching."
Josiah Stone:
"Then we'd head backstage and wait for the sound of the people starting
to arrive. The murmur, the scraping of chairs..."
Sandrine Riveta: "I
love that sound."
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