February 24

Everyone	BIGGER mouths Eugenio falls, town freezes, Vincente is shot, town unfreezes I want layers on costumes – vests and or belts on men; scarves, big belts, on women Everyone needs to be more emotional Everyone needs to be bigger
Eugenio	After war – cross Downstage – You are tormented   Drink when no one on stage can see you. Candles Faster entrance about boils.  Did you say any lines that were cut in that scene? 2’step Faster cross with healted I am astonished  - happy Upstage arm to point to selfish man.
Moises	Don’t push table during Monica’s scenes. We need to see your face not your back when you pull table. Tell town which sargento does the town freeze
Tre	Arms out more
Town	See faces during hands on ears Don’t group up in church scene or any scene.
Clay	Softer guitar
Vincente cries	Belen reacts BIG.  React to each scream
Breck	Hit door when Luis does.
Luis	Head up When Monica says threw it away – anger builds to hitting the washer. Monster – palm out Dash heads on rock – palm out and look at that line Giving it toher - bigger
Lights	Monica’s second monologue
Belen	Pineapple in ghostly hand Move with electricity Why to the audience – a crying why – use taylor Everitt’s cry throat example
Don	On knees or standing at the end.

THIS MUST BUILD

MOISES	Your daughter is dying.  The moon orbits the earth.  The earth orbits the sun.  Your daughter is dying, and only I can heal her.
MOISES	Do you want your daughter to die?
LUIS	She’s not….
MOISE	Pues dimelo.
LUIS	I want you to help me.
MOISE	No… Need.   I said NEEEEED   Say it with me   NEEEEED
LUIS	But I
MOISE	Worthless little words
LUIS	Then why do you want them?
MOISE	I’m poor.  I don’t have the words you have.  I don’t get to say wife.  Or daughter.
LUIS	I need your help… I need your help.
MOISES	And I am a murderer.
LUIS	I am a…. I am a murder.
MOISES	Feel free to beg………..BEAT… whenever you are ready
LUIS	Please, Moises.  I beg you for forgiveness.  Beg you to heal my daughter.
.MOISES	That’s what I wanted to hear.  Don’t forget to take your daughter with you.
LUIS	But you didn’t do anything. You promised you would….
MOISES	I lied.  You are going to pick her up and I will never see you again.
MONICA	He… he…
LUIS	I can’t.  her head…. In my hands… will crumble and I can’t.
MOISES	Will someone take this child off my table?
EUGENIO	But….
MOISES	Now he speaks.  Go back to nursing your flask.
EUGENIO	You are a selfish man who can’t look up from his navel long enough to see how many people would kill for the gift you have. Kill to be able to reach out, touch something….someone…. and erase all the… the… the…
MOISE	Nothing you do will ever make up for how you failed us.
EUGENIO	What would Belen think of….
MOISE	Do you really think your little lips are worthy of uttering her name?
MONICA	What if… I promise to keep your wife’s memory alive?
MOISES	How?
MONICA	I could …… tell Ailen what my husband did.  Who he did it to.
LUIS	Monica……..
MOISES	You are lying.
MONICA	If that’s what it takes.  I’ll whisper in her ear every day.  Make sure she never forgets….
MOISES	She will blame you too. Barely stand the sight of you.
MONICA	But she will be alive.
MOISES	Bring her to me.
LUIS to MONICA	Pero que…. Que has hecho? =but, what have you done
MOISES to LUIZ	May she live a long life and never look at you without seeing the faces of your victims.
TOWN 8	When both their hands are on the child, someone shouts…

February 17

Everyone	Move water faucet DS in line with the pylon on Stage Right. Jack Cody, the main judge, is big on master gestures.  Make these clear.  I haven’t seen many. Who is supposed to take off the furniture left stage?  It all needs to be taken off except the bench to make room for the town in the later scenes. I know you were tired.  You’ve had a long weekend.  We will ask Ms. Griffis and Ms. Escobar to  watch Monday. We need to see everyone’s decisions throughout the play.
Music	Static was too loud Battle sounds were too loud. Fade it in – especially with people talking
Lights	Make sure that people who are not the focus of the scene are not in the light. When Moises says Why after the scene where he tries to bring her back to life, make a BIG difference in lighting to show a change.
Moises	Make the washing of the hands slower – more ritualistic Vocal reaction to Belen’s screams behind scrim. Why needs to be a little less than you gave during Freida’s clinic. Cry  Then take a beat to orient yourself from this nightmare.   You are puzzled as you return to Monica, you’ve lost something during that struggle with Luis that you are trying to regain.  Was it real? Fill  your suitcase with something that doesn’t make noise.   Much better on lower pitch and slowing down.  Need to see your decision in bring her to me.
Monica	Read enough of the paper that you understand he signed up to join. More reaction – the first time we killed children – you had no idea. Breathe deeper.  You are shocked.
Stage lights	At the beginning with Belen Soldier during the car scene
Towns people	Why aren’t you wearing shawls during the war scene? When picking up windows, pick them up where they are and cross to where you need to be.  Don’t go where you need to be then pick up window. During the prayer scenes and the end, face different directions – not everyone is face front. Make sure you are not blocked when you give your line.
Soldiers	Plank needs to be angled to the audience.  We need to see Ramzi’s face.
Guitar	We need music when Ramzi is taken off from DS to the clinic.
Priest	Good job – considering your injury. Good job during the window scene. Too many pauses in lines about 20 dead.
Belen	Lamp on as Moises comes in.  Not on during the car scene. Make your screams increase.   At first maybe no,no, no   increase to the end. Behind the scrim, plant your feet.   Don’t sway. Put up a fight wasn’t in accent. Work on  your ghost movements – be committed.  Don’t do it halfway. How far back are you behind the scrim? Difficult to see you. End of your lines need to be as loud as the first of your lines.
Luis and soldiers	As Luis was behind the scrim, his head sharply turned toward the clinic when they were transporting Ramzi.  I liked that.
Rafaella	If you are in the light, don’t move so much.  I love your character.  Move more right stage in the window scene.
Luis	Head up.
Moises & Luis	Watch being too profile.
Belen and Moises	Each time Vincente (Ramzi) yells, react – especially Belen.

An Amazing Thursday

February 7, 2019
Everyone	Really a great job tonight.  So proud of the way you have all stepped up. Please express your gratitude to our techies.  They have been great. I want everyone’s “town” names so I can use those. People noises after except Moises. PN when Ramzi is in plaza. PN BIG TIME when Luis comes through crowd.  Let him almost fight his way in until you figure out who he is.
Soldiers	Need to see two of you behind the scrim when Padre is with Moises. Put palm print on board.  Don, I think we can put it on one side and you can “tie “ Ramzi to it with your back to the audience & turn the plank around.
Breck	You go first – cut. Say a prayer Moises steps inside the clinic While child Somebody screams Of bright white skin
Belen and Monica	You were both so vulnerable tonight.  Belen, loved the way you nearly fell apart, chewing on your fingernails.  Monica, I saw fight and fury for the first time tonight.  Great job – both of you.
Luis	What a performance! Mrs. K- Great variations in your character. It got run over They told us I’m nothing you are everything
Moises	Loved seeing the different sides to your character – so kind to the child on the table. Oh, he speaks – accent The boy could honestly say… Is it really you? Worthless little words
Eugenio	Keep improving as much as you did tonight each time.  It was great. Lines needing accents I wake up to the sound of static Except Moises No one dares to The war turns 3 Moises passes in the street
Clay	We need music as Belen and Moises cross to Ramzi
Monica	Decide when you are going to be pregnant.  Great idea, Kenna. When you come in from cleaning houses, be disheveled and bone tired. Have something wrapped around your head.  I want you to put some bruise makeup under your eyes. Bigger I see my husband’s hands. How did you pay – accent Talking to me So sorry Go ask him All stretched out General – H Sustain each Bigger on good bye Begs me to keep it Her name is Aileen To go ask him
Kaytlyn	Move more right stage when the clinic scene is going on.  First line was too fast. Loved your playfulness and being sleepy at the clinic. Step on lines.
Marinda	First line louder. Everything you do is reflected in your face!great job. Louder on 18 months.  Don’t move frame when holding it – ask Kenna.
Belen	First line wasn’t in accent. It’s a challenge They chipped away You said some lines that were cut, but were SO GOOD
Hannah	You have great facial expressions and movements.  Ask someone to record your lines for you. Within a week We wait Choke with pilgrims Every sign of the cross Before our eyes.
Alee(Wilmer)	Great facial expressions!!!
Breck, Alee, Kaytlyn	LOVE the family dynamics
Kate A	Sing with confidence. LOUDER
Moises and Eugenio	Great chemistry
Stephen	Work on diction Bigger mouth movements Don’t be afraid to say your lines.
Ramzi	25 to a pew
Don	Moises steps inside the clinic
	Thanks to Kenna for putting times down.
Town	If I could write a love letter to you I would.  Every time that I looked at the stage –EVERYONE was engaged.  Everyone reacted every time.  You made beautiful stage pictures.
Needs	Rice Baby blanket