Night Heron More

Mr. Jez Butterworth put together a very interesting and completely vague (intentionally so) script when he wrote The Night Heron. The only thing that I can tell you for sure at this point in time is that our production will be compelling. The good news is that we have done a hell of a lot of work uncovering the events of the play and figuring out what the heck is going on, in detail. The other good news is that now we have a hell of a lot more work to do. At this point some scenes are great fun, and others I still dread. As for the "main event" of the play for Jess, it has to either be the moment of speaking for himself in his defense or the moment just after of taking blame for everything gone wrong. We have traced and researched and talked about all the little particulars, words, phrases, ideas, events, places, people, etc. We have discussed the large metaphors and the big ideas. And we have discussed clear simple notions of who these people are and what they are doing. We have brutally probed the play. And of course we are trying to find ways to properly render it on the stage.