First read rehearsal. It was disturbing to discover that the 80 page script I anticipated would run 95 minutes if we were doing things very extremely wrong, ran instead for two hours.
It's a highly sensual script. I debated between saying erotic, or pornographic, but I think sensual is correct, due mostly to what I discovered was rather inaccessible language for most of the cast. Phantasmagoria. Turpitudinous.
I don't think of the theatre as an inaccessible art, I don't consider the rhetoric extremely technical or complex, because it's life. How can metaphor and life experience created by people who mostly aren't scientists or philosophers, but are sometimes both accidentally, be difficult? And then I remember, after a conversation about her family and weekend plans, the sister of a friend said, "You do talk about normal things." When I have to.
Although, it's also an erotic script. One scene deals explicitly with necrophilia, another with coprophilia, where another could be described as merely foreplay and I thought, "I wonder if it's possible to link every scene with a sex act?" Yes, either a clear or sub-textual sex act for each of the 25 scenes. So, that makes my Google history all the more unique.
Candaulism is the word for a man who likes his wife to be the subject of other men's voyeurism. Comes from an ancient King of Lydia who contrived to show another man his naked wife. She discovered the plot, and told the peeping tom she was either going to kill him, or her husband, the choice was his. He chose to live, and the Queen married him, and that's, apparently, how you choose to tell the story in order to cover up a murder and still become King of Lydia.
Noticing the irony that the most disturbing thing to come out of a rehearsal for a script about perversion, censorship and the nature of good and evil was the run time.
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