Our first day of tech. Usually, in totally new surroundings and with so many new technical elements to take on board, techs can make you feel like a pretty useless actor. It feels like all your work has gone out of the window and you don't believe a word you're saying. For some reason, I felt totally the opposite today. Not that I suddenly became sensational or anything, but I felt very much more comfortable than I had in the rehearsal room.
There are a number of factors here I think. One is that for once no one is remotely interested in the quality of your acting. They care if you're in the right place at the right time, wearing the right clothes and holding the right props, but for now the standard of your performance is pretty irrelevnnt. This really eases the pressure. Free from the shackles of scrutiny, you can play the scenes on your own terms and have some fun. Another factor is that because you're suddenly faced with the banks of empty seats where the audience will be, exactly what you have to do to communicate the story to them is immediately more clear. Everything seems simpler. It's also in the nature of a tech that you repeat things over and over, which in itself is no bad thing.
Slow but steady progress through the play, and we were apparently on schedule at the end of the day. When I had the chance, I snuck 'out front' for a peak, and the show looks and sounds fantastic.
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