Theater For Dummies: Lesson #4 - Time

There is no such thing as "enough time" to work on a production. Either you feel like you have to "rush" through the rehearsal process to make the "deadline" (which happens when you know in advance when your play is coming out) or you get lost in rehearsing a play because you don't know when exactly you need to be done with everything (because you don't know the exact opening date yet).
But either way everyone always says you would have needed more time to make it perfect. There is no such thing as a "perfect" production either, of course, but both the director and the actors will always think they could have changed things to make it closer to being perfect.
Time is never your friend and especially shortly before the play comes out things get VERY hectic sometimes.

I can honestly say I love the chaos and stress right before "the big day". But I also need time for myself right before the show starts to get into character and to calm myself down. Below you will find a picture which was taken an hour before the opening. It shows my favorite moment of a new play: getting into character by putting on the make up. I usually do it myself because it helps me to be calm and focused. I love doing it on my own because no one is there to bother me.

The picture was taken by Daniel Wendt and is a part of a series of pictures he took for our latest play "MythEND". More pictures will follow...