Monday, January 3
Akin to the word of God. Now I am not religious, but we sure as hell were blessed today cause Lucy was in residence with us and it was awesome. Angels came down, gave us tips you won’t hear from straight people and said fuck a lot. Total joy.
It’s such a gift when you can have the playwright in there with you, changing lines, giving insight and sharing their window onto their world. The play opens up in a whole new way that is energizing and funny and so, so clear. We talked a lot about drug addicts and charming men from Western Mass who will smile at you, rob you of your TV and then try and give it back to you as a gift. Some of us know these people. Some of us don’t. It made me bring up The Fighter, which is such an amazing, and at times screechingly-funny, door into that world. I see there are a lot of window and door metaphors going on tonight. Maybe because such a loading bay door was opened for us today in rehearsal. So here’s a shout out to our charming, funny and irreverent playwright. The best of collaboration was with us today. And now I have a crush. *sigh*