End of our third week of rehearsal, we held our first full stumble-thru of the play today. Inspiring and challenging, the actors inhabit their roles, their worlds and most importantly their relationships. There is friendship, disagreement, process and growth.

After the run, it became crystal clear that this play is nowhere near as polarized as it first appeared. At first glance, one could see that certain characters were driven by ambition and others driven by their desire to make a home, but after today it became clear that all the characters are ambitious in their way, and all have a profound desire for home. Just not always at the same time as their partners...

The designers are crafting three distinct worlds for three acts, one world we know, full of imperfection and hope, another one we see in only in glossy catalogues, and the third a strangely post-apocolyptic balancing act between despair and hope.

Click on the photo of Ernest Hemingway above to link to a video news story that Angela found about Ernest Hemingway's house in Cuba...