From 9.12.07.

We begin with a production meeting. Aaron asks me to brainstorm with Cliff and Chad about good times for them to come in and tech slides and sound over us working in Week 3. They are both interested in Tues and Weds, and have similar points with heavy sequences. (Chad wants to do a slideshow with the lights out, too.) Chad mentions the explosion on p.3, the section of war being declared up through Morris, as targets. I promise to send some emails about this.

Into rehearsal, we begin staging from p. 26 on.

Aaron lets movement happen in silence, too. He encourages Camille to get back to where she needs to be (the stage, as opposed to Planet Cyprus) before continuing. It’s a nice gesture in a quick-moving play.

Through page 35, then lunch. Aaron and I eat lunch at a nearby taqueria and he mentions the Acco Festival, an Israeli festival of experimental performance. We also talk ATJT and their current mission to have more administrative structure. They have a grant to have a consultant help them with it.

We stage through to the final beat. Aaron suggests that she engage with the entire audience visually on the Shaloms. They try a few different things and agree to hold off on that last moment for the moment.

We have staged the whole play, (including 3.5 days of table work) in eight rehearsal days.

We look for a recording of Chava Alberstein singing Yerushalayim Shel Zahav online, with no luck.