Tonight was our first script-based rehearsal. Hearing the words and watching the cast interplay is so fascinating to me. Each day I work with the cast, it becomes clearer and clearer what a Director does. They facilitate tempo, timing, connection; they create the environment FOR the actors to work well. If you can create a creative safe space, then it will come.
I also have such a better understanding about what my directing mistakes were in the past; especially with the last piece I directed. With each project I want to make progress as a facilitator, as a visionary. Learning to relax the hypercritical need I have for perfection; opening my heart and spirit to divine play. To trust, like in nature, when seeds have the right amount of warmth, water and soil, they grow.
Firstborn saved me. It saved me from a spiritual death. It saved me from a life of bitterness. It taught me to love and open my heart; taught me compassion, and that the love I've needed has always been around me. It's mirrored my personal life; it's given me courage in my personal life. So to be able to give something back to this project means a great deal to me. To give it life and put it on the stage is just the beginning.
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