Easter Vigil Grace Cathedral Liturgical Theater Project

CASTING The cast was a blend of two congregation members (handpicked for their prior theater experience, interest and ability) and four professional actors whose work I knew well. As soon as rehearsals began, though, I was trying to direct them. Despite my best intentions, I was getting in their way. To expropriate a baseball expression, "Half of a successful production is 90% casting." I had brought talented people together and was making confusion rather than theater. After an hour of putting then in places in the space and telling them to do things, I had frustrated them (through they were too kind to say so) and frightened myself. If this was what I was going to be like, the project was sunk.  Next page | Directing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13