Hi. I'm in Delaware.

The internship has finally picked up. Of course that means I've been in Delaware four times in the last three weeks. This weekend was dress for Turn of the Screw at DTC. An hour and a half of driving to sit in a dark (freezing cold) theatre for a few hours followed by a frantic two hours of finishing as many notes as we can before the evening's tech.

The two days were pretty typical of a tech. We sat and watched a bit of a scene, stopped, work edsome lights or blocking, redid the scene, stopped, went back to the beginning, worked a bit more forward, stopped, etc... With only two costumes, most of our notes were noted within the first hour. They didn't start the first actual run until right before the dinner break on Saturday. I'm back in Delaware on Wednesday night for the preview performance, but I'm trying to see if I can negotiate a few extra bodies to come down with me.

As it turns out, it was good I didn't stay overnight in Delaware, and opted instead to drive back and forth--the designer's hotel room was infested with bedbugs. Yet another example of the glamorous life ahead of me.

I've started work on the dance concert, thankfully only one piece with 7 dancers, however, the department screw up the schedule yet again and this will interfere with both portions of my thesis. When I originally agreed to a piece, I assumed it would be in the spring, after my internship and Country Wife. Not so. On top of that, the timing of the dance concert conflicts with the shop schedule--Ellen's thesis would be in the shop and two of the strongest stitchers will be busy on the dance. Three stitchers out when you consider Ellen can't work on her own show. Ah the RU Screw.