From rehearsal today: “It’s not a monologue. We’re all in the room with you.”

We also learned today the value of starting GOLDA’S BALCONY at the beginning – it’s proving really useful, at least for now, to get the momentum of the start under all our belts before diving into detail work in the less-worked middle and end sections. This is, I guess, still Lisa James’s principle of working the first act more heavily than the 2nd or 3rd.

She once told me that you work the first act until the actors are really eager to move on beyond it – that if the first act is coherent, the rest will flow out of it. This was in reference to BOLD GIRLS in particular.