Explore and heighten: the process continues...

We completed blocking on two more sketches, and are now off-book on seven of the scheduled 10. The ability to get away from reliance on looking at the scripts for lines allows for a whole new level of scene development to take place. The writers have finished building and populating a world, and establishing a story. Now the actors use their talents to breathe life into those characters and make them interact with that world. It is an amazing thing to watch, and gives one a profound respect for the craft of acting.

It was particularly interesting to see how improvisational skills can be used effectively to help the actors explore the basic goals of their characters, as well as their relationships to other characters. We saw that whole Second City approach put into practice right before our very eyes with impressive results.

Well, for the writers it's now one weekend off for the Fourth of July. For the actors, it is another week of memorizing lines, and thinking about how to take their new personas to places we can only imagine.

--A.J. Correa




Jessica and Andrea warm up...




















Michael to Regan: You forgot the batteries.
















Kyle and Jessica discover modern relationships are very complicated...

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