Mon 16th March

Started working week at 4pm. Met v to talk through CG’s patients. All 12 of them, with all of their problems. Then looked at her lines in 3, before Ana arrived at 6pm. Did some tweaking, then ran the scene with MC’s objective being to get CG to leave with her for the cafeteria at the end. Worked fine until Ana’s 6 minute Fritz Alomar speech, which was good, but thereafter she got stuck with the lines. Which makes sense, as she’s using her energy to get through speech, and that which follows is likely to suffer for a while. We worked through it and ran the scene at 9.30pm. After I’d played my intitial music suggestions including Animal Collective, Bert Jansch, Augustus Pablo and Vetiver. One or two of which choices appeared to throw some somewhat. Nevertheless we ran scene, and it went well, por suerte. Wrapped up around 10.30, with V having to hurry off to pick up Tiago, who was in a meeting with Ramiro. I went with her on the bus, and it started pouring with rain the moment we got off. On the way into town she asked about the tube, and told her it’s a joy not to have take it, even if it does have theoretical advantages. Is there any more dehumanised, joyless form of travel than the tube? A journey with nothing to see? Might be quick, but I don’t miss it. They should make cities smaller. Either that or employ the Wuppertal monorail on a mandatory basis.

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