ceebeegee | Make me a willow cabin at thy gate... (Reply)

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.