Adored Wife will be directing her first play ever coming up soon. Auditions are in a few weeks and she's been heavily in all the pre-production stuff. She's excited about it, and I'm excited for her. She's been an actress, stage manager, producer, assistant director, and "food props coordinator" for numerous shows, but this is her first time at the helm.
There are a few adjustments she has to make, of course, to compensate for her various challenges:
1. She has to have a place she can stand up to run rehearsals. The technical director has taken care of this by making sure there will be a standing bar in the rehearsal space. AW can't sit down for any length of time--fifteen to twenty minutes is about her limit. But with something to lean against she can stand for a good hour before she has to go lie down for awhile.
2. AW has face blindness (prosopagnosia). With people she knows this isn't a big problem because she can tell by voice or hair color or body shape or some other distinguishing characteristic who it is. There will hopefully be some newcomers at auditions, and I'm going to be her assistant for that time period only to help her keep track of who is who.
3. She suffers from memory issues. Not a problem--she simply writes everything down. Of course there are lots of pieces of paper she has to keep up with but AW has remarkable organizational skills and is adept at that.
4. She has some vocal tics and anomic aphasia--conversation is sometimes difficult for her. It's not a problem once you're accustomed to how she expresses herself. She's going to solve this one by being very open with the auditionees and with the final cast and crew about the issue, and hopefully it won't make anyone feel awkward.
She's looking forward to it.
Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.
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