Make me a willow cabin at thy gate...

[ceebeegee]

We had our first readthrough for Twelfth Night last night, down at HB Studios in the Village. I'm very excited we'll be rehearsing (some) down there--I don't get into the Village that often and it's one of my favorite neighborhoods in the city! I have a lot to do so it was nice just to relax and think about Viola. Readthroughs can be deadly dull--sometimes people read better than others, you get impatient when you don't have a line for a long time--but it's good to hear the play all the way through. It occurred to me, during one of Olivia's scenes, why Olivia responds to Viola--because Viola has a core of sadness. There's a layer of grief in everything she does in this play, and underneath all the silliness, Olivia senses that.