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Don’t get me wrong… I’m enjoying the fact that we’re getting to work on Comedies right now. But a part of me gets quite upset. I mean, I finally understand how people with certain parts must have felt. I always felt bad for Tara during The Dancers rehearsal, as she only had, like, three lines and was on and off stage before you had a chance to blink. The same goes for Kira, Matt, and R.J. in A Far Country. I have felt their pain.

Somewhere between the hours of 2PM and 4PM, I felt like sticking my pen inside my eyeball.
Like I’ve said before, I love Once A Catholic… but I’m getting bored as hell waiting for my scene to come up. Rehearsal feels like two loooooooong hours.

Instead of paying attention, however, I spent my time deciding how I’m going to play Father Mullarkey. Although I’m ashamed to admit it, I hadn’t at all thought about how Father Mullarkey would be extremely sexually repressed, and that that monologue that I typed here before may have some alterior motives to it. I was thinking about that, and some other ways to be wacky with the text. Woohoo!

All in all, though, rehearsal for Catholic was really, really boring.

On the other hand, we read through The Real Inspector Hound aloud together for the first time today. It was ten times funnier than when I was silently reading it. I highly recommend it to everybody. Either read it or see it.

After the read-though, we had a discussion about the play itself. We started answering the simple question - what’s the plot of the play. After we went through the events with a very quick (and, yet, confusing) play-by-play of events, we started discussing the themes of the play. The conclusion that I took from it was that this play, despite being a one-act parody of farcical murder mystery movies, was that this play is waaaaaaaaaaaay complicated. Discussing the many different things that Tom Stoppard could have been eluding to with this seemingly simple piece of literature made my head want to fall off of my neck and explode upon hitting the ground. I’m quite happy to be involved in it.

Was talking with Cary Ward after rehearsal — about how we’re the last play to go up on the last day. He agrees with me — we’re closing off the year, and we’ve got to kick this play’s ass.
T. Ryder Smith won’t be there tomorrow… he just told us what to do and is leaving the rehearsal up to us. I’m glad that a director trusts us that much.

9 rehearsal days left for Once A Catholic
11 rehearsal days left for The Real Inspector Hound