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Many of the actors praise Packer's open directing style...
...technique comes into play before the actors have memorized their lines. Packer took their scripts and fed them the words slowly--even one at a time--while asking them questions about their characters. Cary P. McClelland '02, who is the show's assistant director along with Monica A. Henderson '99, says the technique means that actors memorize their lines along with mental associations that help them play their characters...
Starting with load-in on April 18, tech work had been done at the Loeb. But the production process began long before that. The producers had an initial meeting with Packer in December, and Scully met with Packer in January to discuss potential designs...
...three of us have really gone and found our own character," says Clarke, who plays Richard in the last third of the play. He adds that Packer "gives us a lot of autonomy...
According to McClelland, Packer has let every actor's character grow and only recently intervened, unlike other directors cast member have worked with...