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...RM: Actually, we decided to have absolutely no plot in mind when we started. We just wrote a series of e-mails back and forth. And that's why a lot of the imagery ties in so well, because we would take a...thought from one person's poem...and expand upon it in our own way. We didn't think of [what character] would say it, or what the situation was, but we ended up with 30 pages and distilled it to about...
...RM: The first play I directed here was Savage Love by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin which [used] the exact same model--a series of poems telling about moments in a relationship....For this show, we decided to take that form and see if we could do it ourselves, on our own. The result is that you're getting a dialogue on stage that you don't normally hear, I think. It has its own rules and its own rhythms that we had to figure out, especially during the rehearsal process...
...RM: Yeah, the phrase we came up with during rehearsal was "dialogue approaching emotion." [We took] emotions that everyone could relate to and staged them in a way that would be fresh yet identifiable...
...RM: The first thing we did [with the actors] was have them sit with the script. They brought us up to speed on what we had written, which was a really interesting process...
...RM: For me, not holding onto the script too closely, which we've done remarkably well...