Today we were working with some simultaneity, with an intercut between two different scenes. It reminded me of when we intercut Romeo and Juliet’s respective “banished” monologues. Both directors used a technique without any freezes – the idea is that the scene that doesn’t have dialogue is still going on, even though they’re not talking. It took me seeing this twice to internalize it.

I also finished, yesterday, a timeline of all the events in this play, which makes me happy. It begins in 1898, includes the Korean War and the start of the strike, and ends on Thanksgiving Day, 1961 – and I actually looked up when Thanksgiving Day, 1961 was!

And then we ended the day with working the second logging chorus. Both these choruses are staged with a lot of simplicity and clarity. Five minutes before we were done, I realized what I really wanted was to see both of them happening at the same time.