A good day of tech. It was all about figuring out the rhythm of the projections in the show. The “cube” effect is negligible now.

Aaron has 2 phones on either side of his table: the one on the left talks to the projections designer and sound designer, and the one on the right to the lighting designer. The stage manager hears all of them. It’s like Star Trek. (Which we also discussed today – and Spaceballs.)

I ran lines with Camille whenever we stopped to tech further, and I talked to Joan about the best use of our US rehearsal time.

Aaron, Camille, Heather and I went for drinks afterwards, and we talked, among other things, about the representation of the Holocaust in experience museums (of Tolerance, etc.) in LA and elsewhere. And I came to a realization which I’m going to put here for lack of anywhere else, thinking of Peter Weiss’s THE INVESTIGATION – representations of the Holocaust should never be literal – it’s like God in Islamic art – abstract, symbol, word, number, name, sound, even image if less than complete – but we do not want to re-experience the literal reality of it.

Then we talked about theater some more, in the restaurant and the parking garage and the car and the minds of all those present, and I remembered why I am doing this (I am doing this, aren’t I?) It’s mostly about joy.