"we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously"

Well, as the title of this post might have given away, we have begun Midsummer rehearsals. It's been a lot of long, 10-14 hour days between a variety of workshops around the community, rehearsal for Midsummer, and performance of our traveling summer rep shows. Starting this weekend however, our main concern is going to become Midsummer. Summer rep ends on Friday, we've accepted less requests for workshops, and don't have another week of camp till August. Also, our director is coming today! He was supposed to land at 12:30 and Daniel picked him up and took him to the hotel. Not sure when he'll be getting here before our 3pm rehearsal, but I'm extremely excited to meet him.

So far in rehearsal Daniel's led the kids in a line by line analysis of our cutting of the show making sure that every actor knows what all of his/her lines mean. It was really impressive how prepared a lot of the kids came in and were able to easily figure out their lines. We already have a few actors memorized, which is good and bad. Early memorizing is always good, unforunately they memorized breaking at the end of each line and now have to rememorize some parts in a different way. I'm extremely excited to start rehearsal today with Jason and blocking starts tomorrow. We already have our set ready so things are really about to pick up. For the next few weeks I'll be in rehearsal from 11am to 8 or 9pm Monday through Saturday, so it's going to be a challange. Hopefully a fun one however.

I can tell already some of the effects this internship has had on me. I've noticed my confidence growing as I lead more and more workshops. I've also taken on a lot of techniques that I've picked up from the teachers here and warm ups that are typical of Junior Theatre. It'll be interesting to go back to Monmouth and see how well I can blend these two styles. Plus I'm hoping to learn from Jason's style which could be another completely different thing. I'll try to write soon about our first rehearsal with Jason and how it goes.

PS The quote in my title is said by Bottom at the mechanicals rehearsal in act 1 scene 2.