Space in New York comes with a premium. We often take for granted how the set and props as stored. As a result, actors will often rehearse without those things. And I think that's a mistake. Props and set affect behavior (and thus they affect acting). We interact differently (and feel differently) when we're working with the real deal.
As a producer, I fought really hard to get the set and props into the rehearsal space as soon as possible. And we were successful. By the second week we had everything we needed. And, boy, what a difference this made in our rehearsals. When it comes to love scenes, working on an actual bed made a *night and day* difference (we were using rehearsal blocks - ouch!). And working with actual pots, pans, and vegetables makes a *night and day* difference over miming the action of making soup.
I’m not a big fan of miming. When you mime, you have to concentrate on imaginary details. But when you have real props, you can forget about the miming and focus on other things, like, you know – the acting.
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