zozo's monologue and scene

You're a mean one, Mr. Helmer

Last night Marie and I worked on blocking.

An interesting element we added: sexual tension. The "elf in the moonlight" seems to work well as some sort of...well, sex-type thing. Instead of making Torvald suspicious right from the beginning, it shows weakness--and he almost falls into her trap until he realizes what she might be asking.

We're getting a better grasp on how to use space between us--there's a nice elastic quality to our connection that stretches for tense moments.

One concern I have, though, is that Marie's finding it easier to play off a more menacing Torvald. It's easy to make this guy unlikeable and almost as easy to make him intimidating. So we need to decide whether the good but misguided Torvald's there at all, because at this rate he'll die soon...

posted by Zozo @ 12:53 PM