#me: i love talking in depth about shx texts

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so far we have only done tablework for hamlet and i have to admit i am struggling

it's not that i don't have opinions about these texts or that i'm incapable of doing textual analysis but it's more that i haven't actually met my castmates in person or read any of these lines out loud yet

treating the tablework as collecting questions we want to explore in rehearsal works for me but i struggle so much when i am point blank asked a character question bc i haven't done a single moment of this script on its feet

i can't find these characters or these relationships until we get in a room and see what we have and i hate talking extensively about backstory when i just need to get out there and see what works

thankfully one of the directors today didn't force us to keep going when we ran out of material. he was like sometimes you just have to take what your character does at face value and your characters have like two interactions and that's it and i was like thank you.