“Eggs”-cellent, original script entices Burr and Topp-Johnson
February 15, 2016
Q: Why did you choose to direct this play?
Cas Burr: Ingrid and I really wanted to do a funny play. We didn’t really want to do a serious one. And we kind of liked it. It was really hard to find, but it was really good.
Q: What has been one of the hardest challenges of directing?
Burr: Getting kids to memorize their lines is by far the hardest thing. It’s really easy to get them into position [on stage] once they know their lines, but it’s hard to do anything if nobody knows their lines.
Q: What has been the most rewarding part of directing?
Burr: Getting to see it all come together. What’s been really cool about the play we chose, [is that] there isn’t anything online of people doing it before so it was kind of up for our own interpretation and kind of collaborating with Ingrid of what our vision is and what we want it to be and it’s turning out to be really cool.
Q: What is your play about?
Ingrid Topp-Johnson: It’s hard to say exactly what it is about… It’s a very absurd play in which a family anxiously wait for a young couple to lay eggs, and then exhaust themselves with suggestions of uses for those eggs
Q: Why did you choose this play?
Topp-Johnson: I chose it because I thought the egg laying part was pretty funny, and because I thought it would be fun to direct something without a clear plot.
Q: Were you excited to direct this year?
Topp-Johnson: Yeah I’ve been looking forward to directing one acts ever since I was a freshman
Q: What have been some of the challenges of directing?
Topp-Johnson: The biggest challenge for me has been figuring out blocking (where people move on stage). It’s especially hard because there are no scenes in this play, so everyone is on stage at once, which can make it a little chaotic.
Q: I know that some of the performers are in more than one one act, has that made coordinating rehearsals difficult?
Topp-Johnson: It’s really not as difficult as I thought it would be. I think it’s most challenging for the performers who are in two one plays since they have to memorize twice as much.