Rehearsal

 
I had asked the director, Grayce, for some extra rehearsals for Tatiana.   Grayce's mom who is also the mom of Henry playing the fox had asked me if Tatiana could do an extra rehearsal with him.  So, that worked.   We'd scheduled an extra with Henry for Tuesday and then another with Clem, the aviator on Thursday.   Mondays regular rehearsal was cancelled because of the snow. Grayce had sent out an email that she would be at the theater on Tuesday and Thursday in case anyone wanted to come.  They did the rehearsal with just Henry, Tatiana and Grayce on Tuesday.  Yesterday, Thursday, some of the other people came also.  About half the play is just Tatiana and the Aviator talking.  The last regular rehearsal before this snow misery, Tatiana really struggled to remember her lines and I think Elisa had gotten annoyed at her.  Tatiana got nervous that rehearsal and started to laugh a lot.  We hadn't worked on the play much because her throat was bothering her the weekend before.  So, since the bad rehearsal, Tatiana and I have been working hard at her memorizing her lines.   We started out with her memorizing a chunk at a time.  Then we'd read that chunk, then we'd read through all the stuff she'd already memorized.  Now we read through the play once per day.   At the Thursday rehearsal, Tatiana had her lines best of everyone there.   She has the second most lines to memorize.    She talks as often as the aviator, but he has lots of monologues.   Tatiana only has a few.   The kid playing the Aviator seemed to really know what he is doing, so if Tatiana is doing better, I am pleased.