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JH: It’s not even just direct address: it’s storytelling, buy Nexium from mexico, Nexium gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, and you have to have someone to whom you are telling the story. This play demands an audience—I like to think that all of our shows give the audience a role, but this show in particular, buy Nexium online no prescription. I have had to counteract a lot of the skills the actors have built up over their years as professionals because we want this to be a story told to a group of strangers and when you are telling a story to a group of strangers and someone walks through the room it’s a different thing to ignore that as we are taught as performers, buy generic Nexium. Nexium over the counter, You just keep going—you hold for laughs, but when you are telling a story, order Nexium no prescription, Online buy Nexium without a prescription, if you get a laugh you acknowledge it and either let it fuel what you are saying or doing or use it as that moment to check in with the audience—isn’t that funny or ridiculous or whatever it is that you want to tie in with what your intentions are in a way that is very different then if you have that solid fourth wall. Our most productive rehearsals have been when we have people in the room, where can i find Nexium online, Canada, mexico, india, which is not always the case. This show has been really interesting to watch the actors become so hungry to have more people to tell this story to, buy Nexium no prescription. Buy Nexium online no prescription, They really bloomed when we added more people, which I guess is kind of the ideal situation. Where can i buy Nexium online, ED: How much script development was needed. Were there a lot of rewrites involved or did it come to you as a finished piece, Nexium from canadian pharmacy. Order Nexium from mexican pharmacy, JH: It was pretty set. I wasn’t sure what to expect because this came to the company because I’m friends with Bilal, buy cheap Nexium, Buy Nexium from canada, and he is a self-described crazy perfectionist, and he is often not willing to show something to anyone until he thinks it is pretty damn close to done, and my understanding was when we read this play last winter for funsies, it was just “I wrote this, I know it’s not perfect, but I powered through the parts I got stuck, which I have never done before, and now I want to hear it aloud, which I have never done before either”. So I think he was a little surprised when I came to him earlier this summer because we had been pipe dreaming about how we would do it in a bar, and I don’t think he thought anything was going to come of it so when I emailed him and said I was putting it on the table for New Leaf I think that maybe he freaked out a little bit, buy Nexium online no prescription. There were a few parts that need clarification and specificity and couple of other parts where we just needed to zoom out a bit. I have been really fortunate to work on a lot of plays lately where the characters are so interesting that I become really invested in them and want to talk about them as people so Bilal and I had a long conversation about like, “Oh, Abel, is like this person. He’s the guy who goes to the trivia night, and he always has the answer, but he doesn’t say it unless it’s right down to the wire, and he can save the day, otherwise he doesn’t say anything so everyone thinks of him like this…” or “Mercy and Nick went to college together so that was probably like this…” Then the actors and I had a good solid couple of days talking about these people; where they came from, what part of the cities they live in, and building character biography stuff. I think you have to be really careful doing this, but I was then able to take that to Bilal and say, “This is some things that the actors brought to the table,” and there were a few things Bilal subtly added to the text as another layer of texture, but in terms of rewrites there weren’t major structural shifts, a few tactical shifts, but they were really subtle.

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The show continues without further incident, but Kyra and I stay vigilant.  Every once in a while there's another sweater-filled swat at the sky.  And then it starts to snow.  And it is beautiful.  And cold because all the windows and doors have been flung hastily open.

It really didn't dawn on me until after the show that it was Friday the 13th.  Oh.  Of course.

Today is Valentine's Day.  I remember about that one.  It's also closing night of Touch.  It's about 5 PM now.  Once I wrap this up, I'll make myself something for dinner, hop in the car, and go spend one more evening with Kyle, Bennie, Serena, and Kathleen.   

I have to say goodbye to them later tonight.  But not yet. 

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While I wasn't able to check out the full moon, I did get to see something equally gorgeous - a full house for opening Saturday of Touch.  It has been quite a week for New Leaf - opening a show that has revitalized, buy Levitra from mexico, Buy Levitra without prescription, galvanized, envigorated the company.  Marni and I were remarking that we should be exhausted.  We should be clamoring for a day off, where can i order Levitra without prescription, Where to buy Levitra, even two or three - instead we're energized and eager to start the next thing, climb the next mountain, canada, mexico, india, Rx free Levitra,  spread the word and fill the seats, passing bowls of soup around to as many people as we can.  In aforementioned snow storm, purchase Levitra online no prescription, Where to buy Levitra, we had a sold-out house plus one - our lovely stage manager's sister agreed to sit with her in the booth so we could get one more person in the room.  I totally owe her a drink.   This happened in a snow storm.  In Chicago.  In January. 

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Photo of the January 10th moon by Savannah Grandfather, and used with Creative Commons permissions.

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