Highlights, Insights, and Tidbits

• The twin actors helped choreograph their fights.

• Antipholus of Ephesus had the idea to use a scarf for the rope so he wouldn't injure his Dromio when he beat him with it.

• The director was in the lights/sound booth for tech rehearsal, so the actors had an invisible Angelo (whose lines came from a mysterious source over the speakers).

• We were forced to find a new venue about 3 weeks before the performance!

• The twins were the last roles cast.  The boys each read for all four roles in all possible combinations before the director finally made up her mind!

• Ironically, the shipwreck was one of the most humorous scenes to rehearse!  Actors had to squat and walk onstage behind the blanket-water, Dromio of Ephesus was inside the rock, and tying the baby dolls to the masts was a very difficult task!

Highlights, Insights, and Tidbits

• Nobody mentioned the heat during tech week (we were all suffering together, so there was no use complaining about it)!  It was truly impressive how professional the actors and crew members were!

• Hamlet had actually taken fencing lessons, so he choreographed the final duel.

• One of the two costume designers had never seen the script!

• Ophelia was a talented seamstress, and she sewed her own costume!

• Due to a couple casting rearrangements and the need for understudies, some actors only had 3 weeks of rehearsal!

• During the last week leading up to the show, actors hosted random script read-throughs at their homes for whoever wanted the extra practice.