We’re getting very close to sharing this ground-breaking story with the public. To be clear though, this is a dramatization of what it was like to choose who lived and who died, and not what actually happened. If you’re looking for a fact-accurate recreation of this story – don’t come looking for that here. As they say, “leave the drama for the stage.” What you will see however, is a collection of great talent, a great design team, and an amazing person (Lori Hartwell) who decided that this story needed to be staged. Although not a world premiere, this newly-re-created version with selected script changes by the author is sure to leave audiences moved. It’s hard to image that the first reading with this cast look place only a few weeks ago on February 12. Just ten days later at the first run thru actors were “off book” and had transformed the words on paper to bringing life to the characters from the 1960′s, that were charged with hard choices of an imperfect system.
Last night we hired the final designer for our design team, and 16 miles to the south in Torrance, our master carpenter began building our set in preparation for installation into the Pico Playhouse next Friday March 6. It’s amazing how in such a short amount of time hundreds of details come together to deliver a precise “live” performance before a live audience. You just can’t get that in the movies.
I hope to blog about more tidbits in the days to come!
