Part 1 cracked along. Life at the Trevannions’ turned out to be packed with incident and drama now that we were doing it all in chronological order, not in snippets as before. Ace note from Chris: the personalities, relationships and situations are all sketched in succinctly with the first appearance of each character. Play our scenes big from the outset and everything will be clear. There is nothing tentative. Even the characters who dither do it purposefully, and when people make mistakes they do it with all their heart.
The play within a play is going to be something like The Rite of Spring, with instrumental input and rhythmic chanting from the whole cast, all designed to make the absolute most of the stunning backdrop Nature will provide at the Minack.
(Blog updates by Robert Rowe - playing Peter in The Seagull.)