Patricia Helsel
Rumpelstiltskin: Working Process
Since the play requires audience participation, we experimented throughout rehearsal with potential responses from the audience, practicing techniques for continuing the forward momentum of the story, while enjoying the challenge of improvisation. Before we played before a live audience, colleagues allowed their children to act as audience for rehearsal. (The set was beautifully designed to allow actors to exit into the large audience area, by sliding down a sliding board!)
The slide in use by young actors, depositing them in the audience.
Practicing with a trial audience of friends' children.
