We had a run-through tonight for the benefit of Jimmy the lighting designer. As we're missing Adi and Nate, it was a little bit crippled, but we persevered. (Becca stood in for Adi; I stood in for Nate. Sadly, we did not get the chance to show off our interpretations of their speeches. How disappointing! Back to hiding our acting-lights under the dramaturgy- and playwriting-bushels.) The sound cues of the BBC made their exciting appearance; Dina and Nate have lent their voices, and Lucy her recording experience, to the creation of authentic-sounding news-clips-that-never-were. (The texts of these are assembled from a large collection of actual news clips and news articles, which took about five days straight to read, watch, listen to, and sift. Research is a barrel of laughs! Like monkeys, I tell you!)
Jimmy sat at the edge of the playing space, examining actor-placement and stage-layout and writing on large sheets of paper with the name of the play at the top, which look very technical but which I don't understand the nature of at all. Afterward, we sat down, and he pronounced upon such subjects as When There Will Be Blackouts and What We Will Do About Footlights. Fun fact: did you know that lighting boards are the only pieces of technology in the entire universe that are still manufactured with floppy drives? And only floppy drives. Lighting board manufacturers are evidently sure that the world will soon see the logic of returning to a storage method with data capacities measured in kb. Which doesn't fit in your pocket. And is vulnerable to magnets, dust, and very hot days.
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