Death of a Salesman - Biff's Blog: Day 7

posted by Jeremy Holm

February 7, 2008
It was great to see Tim Bond again as he was away for the past few days while we rehearsed A View from the Bridge. We blocked the remainder of the play today and struggled for a good deal of the time, occasionally unearthing a good beat of work. I was not as prepared as I would like to have been. Toward the end of the day we ran the last scene a third time and found that it had some really good listening going on. Every play requires listening, but this play is impossible to do truthfully without good listening in every single moment. It occurs to me how much trust is needed for good art to be made. All of us bring in our own way of working and all of us must adjust to every other artist's way of working. We must then begin to find a way to create a new way of working together. I think that our team is on the verge of doing just that. There is too the very good feeling of having finished blocking the play and knowing now, a lot more about what we don't know, as well as having planted some anchors in the text. wonder blame freedom dreams whispers