“It Has To Be Precise.”

Many more presentations today leading up to Friday’s deadline for Monday’s show. A few simple and short moments were given the green light which was awesome. Many were given the ‘it’s possible’ meaning it’s nearly there and present again. And a few were given a clear no.

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Hannah and I presented our faxes number again. People were laughing and it went pretty well for us, but Philippe said it wasn’t Clown. The reason for this being we were funny characters, but we never came out of what we were playing to show our naïve pleasure. He helped us, and we tried again, this time stopping what we were playing (me shouting “Assistant!” in an asian accent) when Philippe said stop, and then we both winked at the audience every time he beat his drum. He made sure when I stopped playing to relax and smile. So I was going from tense crazy body and face, and then to relaxed goofy happy-with-myself. Like this we could do it. So we need to present again. But that’s awesome! I never thought I’d have a clown number in the show but maybe I will after all...

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I didn’t keep notes on all the showings today but here a few clear points:

“It has to be precise.”  Although it can look like improvisation and like everything is going wrong, it shouldn’t be. You should be able to repeat it exactly every night. Otherwise it’s a mess and will be hit and miss.

“You can’t laugh if we don’t laugh.” - Don’t corpse. We feel cheated if the performer is having a better time than we are.

“You want to succeed...You want to do your job well.” This is serious business for the clowns, even they have no idea what they are doing.

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Garage day tomorrow so ALL of the presentations will be on Friday. And we’ll have the first years in class then too. So the atmosphere will be intense!