Glad George liked In My Mind's Eye. Re how good the two actresses are playing blind. Early on, the adult actress just got it right - absolutely perfect. So, I made Peyton study what she was doing and she did and then it was all easy. When the real blind kids came in to record the voices tormenting Patty at a party, I watched them very carefully, and we did everything right. Doug kept trying to tell me we had to use a cane and I kept saying no, you wrote a headstrong girl who has slight sight. He bought it and brought it to rehearsal. He really wanted it in the first scene with the male teacher and I said "Have you read your play?" The first thing that happens is he doesn't know she's blind - if she has a cane, well, game's up. Then he wanted me to use it in the dancing transition where Patty, in her prom dress, goes to the old guy's house. That staging and lighting was magical and there was no way I was going to muck it up and both actresses hated the idea of a cane, so eventually we got our way and he came to love it that way because in a memory play you're dealing with subjective memories and poetry.
Ask any other questions. I will say that none of the mirroring I do with both actors on stage at the same time in the same costumes is in the script. I just found it really confusing when the older would play the younger and vice versa and I knew the audience would, too. I puzzled over it for a while, then tried it at the end of act one, having both onstage and it was beautiful and I then added it to every scene and thankfully it was helpful to understanding what was going on. I was very proud of that.
