Rob and I had a lot of time in the greenroom today to work through some things by ourselves outside of the rehearsal hall! Marc apologised to us for having to wait while the boys were working on their scene. However, I personally adore having time to just work and exist with other actors outside of the room. We were stretching and vocalising and running lines together. It was an absolute joy! (I had so many cups of chamomile!!)
All of our extra time today gave me an opportunity to explore scene one once again and think about some of the things that happened in the rehearsal room yesterday! I recognised looking back, that I was having a hard time with who I should be focusing on during this scene. I could not figure out who to look at… my husband— the man I married— or my love who I have been desperately missing and needing to confide in! I was judging myself in the rehearsal room for flip-flopping my focus back and forth between Rob and Ben and not locking my attention to any particular person. However, today I realised that that sense of misdirection makes perfect sense for Margot! She has NO IDEA who to look at at this moment and when she does look at Maxine she mostly has to hide those looks. I cannot wait to explore this more, especially when I am (very soon hopefully,) off-book! Margot is purposefully written to feel like she is in the middle of a tug-of-war! It’s okay that I was feeling like I was being pulled! It’s the very basic premise of her life at this moment in time.
Once we went into the rehearsal room to start working scene two we talked about “the art of chasing” and we went over who is chasing who throughout the scene! I loved this idea of chasing! I think it could be so helpful to lay this idea out throughout my entire script. Margot is always chasing or being chased. I loved exploring when those flips are happening in this scene and I cannot wait to see what that brings to scene two tomorrow when it goes up on its’ feet for the first time!