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 Is anyone else feeling anxious about the wedding approaching so quickly?

It's a Friday night and I'm making a rain stick for the sound bathing that this year's MC plans to perform during Act I, The Ceremony. I've got a wedding veil that I need to finish sewing so that it can accompany the 25 foot long wedding train that is nearly complete. The missing components of the wedding train are a sign saying "to be wed" and some clean cat food cans which will rattle behind the train as if it's a "just married" car. And there are some half finished papier maché flowers that need to be painted for table decorations.  

I'm making props for the show and they're all larger than life.  Directing and producing have slipped into crafting and curating and I'm not mad about it one bit...

Some of these props were designed for promotion but they are evolving into parts of the real show.
The interesting thing about a devised show is that we start with this bare bones foundation and every time we rehearse, we add new things. The ideas that pop up in conversations and the props that I'm creating seems to seep their way into the show and overtime the show starts to create itself. There is a strange synchronicity that seems to happen after all the cast members have developed their characters. It's like we all know each other's characters just well enough to anticipate what they'll do or how they'll respond. And the better we know each other the more fun we can have. Spending an evening crafting oversized wedding attire, table decorations and musical instruments is a way that I can connect with the characters, get to know them a little better and feed their personalities.  

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