I start every rehearsal with what I like to call "Housekeeping" and a check in with my performers. During Housekeeping, I outline the agenda of that day's rehearsal as well as share any announcements or information that my actors need to know. This way, we all know what to expect of the rehearsal, what our goals are for the rehearsal, and my actors are up-to-date with all information.

Check-In lets me know where my actors are each rehearsal. I always ask them for their boundaries (in case anything has changed since the last rehearsal) as well as how they're doing percentage-wise. Asking for a percentage allows me to meet my actors wherever they are that day. For example, I'll know not to ask too much from an actor who's feeling 40%, but I can push my actor who's feeling 80%. This also lets me know what to expect from my performers once rehearsal properly begins.

After Housekeeping and Check-Ins, I always do a warm up of sorts. For this show, I implemented trust falls as part of the warm up process. In the show, the performers are literally tied to each other and thus rely on each other, so it's important that they trust one another. I found that the trust falls helped strengthen that trust, and also made rehearsal fun, as the performers really seemed to enjoy doing the trust fall. It also helps that the performers went through their BA together, so there's already a lot of natural trust there. Beyond trust falls, I would often run my actors through tongue twisters to prepare their mouths for the complex lines in the play. I would also run them through energy exercises to get their bodies warm and ready to work with the ever-tricky string.

After Warm Ups, we'd go straight into the meat of rehearsal: blocking and run-throughs. For the majority of the rehearsal process, we worked through the blocking of the show. The string proved to be quite finicky, as it was the last time we performed in 2024, so the majority of the time was spent trying to figure out the string movement. Once we solidified the blocking, we would simply run-through the show as many times as we could during our rehearsal time. We would also take breaks during this time, for anywhere between 5-15 minutes depending on the number of breaks and how much we needed to get done.