Last night was our first session of tablework for Picasso. For this show it’s important not just from a character perspective, but to chew over the ideas and philosophies at play in the script. And it was a great discussion, ranging from physics and dreams and the nature of genius to the relationship between drawing and sex. We have some clever people in this cast, and they feel strongly about this play and everything it can be and say if we’re up to it.
It will be a couple more days before we’re on our feet and I can see how all of these different performers put these ideas into practice, because that’s what matters in the end. The relationship between thought and instinct is, after all, baked right in to the text. But each occasion I have had so far to be with this cast and crew has reinforced that it is a group I am excited to be with for the next couple of months.