Tech Week is often referred to as "hell week" in theatre circles, but our show is not going to have one. Yes, our musical director has been called out of town by a family emergency, but an able substitute has arisen. She is laboring mightily to learn the score in less than a week and the orchestra seems to know the score so well that they play correctly even if given the wrong cue.

The lights are glorious. The set, though not yet with every detail in place, is lovely, dark, and has plenty of room (except for that damn table that, for reasons that defy my comprehension, never gets moved out of the way and has given all the blocking a lopsided feel to it). The costumes are drab, dark, with a very sedate feel--exactly right for this show.

It continues to get better. I may be blind to those aspects that aren't good, so busy am I at focusing on my own performance, but everyone I interact with gets better with each run thru. last night I got some real emotion from prisoners in the Cervantes scenes.

I can't wait for people to see it and tell me what they think!