Today is a paper-filled day...

I am currently overseeing a discussion of Still Life being held by the Director, Asst. Director, and actors. It's a very calm rehearsal, that seems to be going really well. A lot of questions are being answered and a lot of text-work is being done...

...and a lot of paper is being used.

The cast and directors are currently sitting in a circle in the rehearsal space, with a large (3'x2') sheet of butcher paper between them, as well as several sheets of construction paper. There are 2 equally sized sheets of butcher paper waiting to be used in the corner of the room.

Because Still Life is a very children-oriented show, the cast is communicating and developing their characters by drawing pictures and maps of the world they are portraying. Maggie (our director) has also had the cast bring in pictures of themselves when they were younger to post on the walls of our rehearsal room. These are labelled with their names printed on strips of paper...which I cut out and posted.

I knew going into this project that paper was going to be used by everyone except for stage management, but it seems to me that the next step (not anytime soon, mind you) could be expanding the paperless idea into other departments in a production. For things such as signage, which is what a lot of paper has died for today, there are resources that are currently outside of the means of our department that we would need. Also, if Project Paperless was ever expanded to include *all* involved in a production, it would need to be a show that would lend itself to that kind of production. Still Life with Iris is not that kind of show in my mind, but I can see it working with other shows.