Xavier Leret

We did some really useful work today. Useful work often means taking a scapel to the text. In this case the morning started with Ruth visiting sex worker John. Her relationship is breaking down, as Mark, her partner, is caught up in the underbelly of web-porn and cybersex. Tina and Mat had found a really beautiful and sensitive quality for the scene, the last time we look at it, but the writing was putting up real barriers, preventing them from re-finding this. There was a lot of superflous material which made the character of Ruth dance around her need for the encounter. It was padded writing, relating more to how I was feeling on the day that it was written than the truth of the scene, trying to be clever and funny, rather than gentle and soulful – so chop chop.
Here’s the latest rehearsal VLOG. This is a snippet of the cyber sex scene between Mark and Janet, played by Nick Chambers and Nuala Walsh. Apologies in advance – we moved into the studio today and consequently the sound is a little unruly. You can choose to watch the vid in the brightcove window or, if this takes a while to download try clicking the link to the quicktime file here.


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