What I believe is if something that does not work in one scene we try and use it for another scene so the ideas are never wasted. James Macdonald (a Film and Theatre director) worked on, 2012’s ‘Love and Information’. “She thinks in terms of images,” referring to Churchill said by MacDonald in The Newyorker, adding, “The scripts are open-ended—they want you to enter into that world and play and find your own conclusions.” As a director, this gives open creative freedom to explore the scenes in many different ways. One of James Macdonald’s key features as a director is to say ‘let’s try it’ which is great – no matter what anyone says. For me, I understand that trial and error is very important and that we cannot be fixated on one idea but brainstorm many. For this particular script, there is a lot to explore since there are no characters and there are no stage directions. As a director of this production, I did initially find it extremely daunting, to begin with. I could not understand how the script was laid out and gradually got to understand Churchill’s work and how she wants us as directors and actors to approach it freely. In this image, it shows how we all had a different interpretation of how we wanted to be perceived on camera. This was interesting to see how we all approached the task completely differently. It is all trial and error which we understood that it will be part of our process of learning more of what will work in each scene.

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