we got up, found a supermarket, fixed eggs, then drove down to the Out of the Blue Drill Hall theater in the nearby town of leith. if you're looking for a great crew and multi-stage black box experience for a show, this is it. it's the Blue's first year at the finge festival, and from the look of it, it won't be its last.
the drive *should have been* only 10 minutes, but the GPS that we got from the car rental company (enterprise can SUCK IT) enjoys sending us down 1-way streets and dead-ends. we would've tried google maps via phone, but data rates with t-mobile are something like $1500 per second, so we settled for just getting lost repeatedly...if you try every address, you're eventually bound to get there by brute force.
we started our tech run and prop prep at 3pm, and didn't finish until 11pm. setup was murder. the props involve a complicated set of precisely cut wardrobe-sized cardboard boxes that are used in the show's final illusion, and cutting/taping them together takes foreverrrrr. when we finally finished and went to leave, we discovered that everyone else in the theater was gone, and we were locked in...how tres bad sitcom. luckily we had the stage manager's cell and he lived nearby, otherwise we might've had to camp out....and i might've been forced to drink all the beer in the kitchen as revenge....
we saw our first green hills today...crazy green...i can't wait for sunday when we'll take a drive through the country to the castle ruins where robert the bruce, scotland's first king and kaydee's forebear, was born.
it's 1am and i feel perfectly awake. jetlag rocks!
--s
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