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Frozen

Posted by DCA Theater on March 27, 2009 in January-June 2009 Season, INCUBATOR Series: Rasaka Theatre

by Kamal Hans, director, actor, Rasaka Board Member

So, we have had 3-4 rehearsals for each piece and it was decided that the scripts would be “frozen” on March 15th.  Well, the best laid plans…  In one of my pieces we received the 4th rewrite as of today!  Ironically, the rewrite is almost an identical copy of the first script!  Well, as luck would have it, this is the one piece I am acting in and I enjoy the challenge and “freshness” of the new script.

As far as my directing pieces go, well, one of the pieces has had intimate involvement with the playwright who has attended rehearsals and rewritten on the fly.  This has been a nice, if not dangerous, tool to have as the playwright could get overly involved and override the director; but we have been fortunate and all has gone smoothly there.  The other piece, has had almost the complete opposite as far as involvement from the writer.  The first revision from this write was minor at best.  So, we rehearsed the revised piece and found numerous changes would improve the script and tell the nice story even better.  So, we made suggested changes and submitted them to the writer – who signed off.  So far so good.  Next step is tech and all the administrative pieces…