The second day of working on the play in its entirety and seeing it from beginning to end. The run through is always equally exciting and terrifying and it both reassures and disregards previous work on the play. Today though, with the heat of the sun outside and one final week before getting in to the theatre we have achieved what I had hoped, to run the play with consistent thought and energy. A Girl in a Car with a Man is a play that surprised me, a play about surveillance, our nation under the watchful eye of millions of CCTV cameras. It is also about the abduction of a girl, instantly evoking memories of Madeleine McCann of Jamie Bulger and with uncomfortable dialogue and volatile characters. However, through our rehearsal process, the actors and I have managed, as is always the case to unearth so much more. This process, the most fascinating and rewarding process I am ever a part of must now have currency and be discovered before an audience.
I am as always moving through a process that is in itself youthful and adapted from project to project but it is now, with this project, my third in the past several months that I have started to progress a style of my own. Rob Evans's text, although reminiscent of our own contemporary situation, our own context has presented many challenges. It is these challenges that always inspire the work, the next project and propel me ever forwards.
