Krissy and Jenn's first thoughts on The End Of the Play

End of the Play, the Crazy Breakdown...

Jenn and Krissy let us into their thoughts behind the end of the play. After G/C call the fight, "Benjamin Franklin is the winner." The cast begins a chant of "I'm feeling Lucky...I'm so lucky...Let's get Lucky..."

The crazy breakdown is that the play starts over again. 

THE ACTORS legitimately as people trying to redo the play, word by word. The rules of this breakdown are as discussed:

-Start with the first scene of the play, unless your Benjamin Franklin and your in it. You do all the scenes your not in, skipping the ones you are.
-There is no rehearsing this.
-ppl are not expected to have every line of the play memorized
-the key to theatrical chaos, is that it's not chaos for the performers
-rule is that if you don't remember something, you move onto the next line, next song, next scene
-probably cannot involve props
-the attempt at doing it perfectly will create frustration and urgency in the performance

When the cast began to ask why? Where does this moment come from? Why do we need to do this? 

J- "if you don't re-do the show to the best of your ability, then we've broken the show and there is nothing left to save."

K-"We are re-doing the show to get back to David's line, 'it's my fault.'"

J-"We are challenging the audience to say, 'its my fault.'

The GOAL of getting everybody in the audience to all say 'it's my fault.' is the goal of re-doing this whole play. It's like there's a fork in the road, after scene 9, when David says "it's my fault." ANd since the audience didn't say it then, we have to re-do the show to get them all to say it.

And I had to leave rehearsal just as Kieran was pointing out that we might need to think about a contingency plan.

While all of this is happening the American Dream comes back to life, and crosses really slowly, {ie Robert Wilson's work. The AMD will cross so slowly across the space that it will take him literally the same amount of time to cross the space as it will take everyone else to re-do the play}