'Mary'(Jeanne Avril)and'Austin'(Claire Vowels)
Danielle Cooper as 'Baltimore'
Cast Photo: (from left to right) Austin( Claire Vowels), Mary(Jeanne Avril), Baltimore (Danielle Cooper), Dallas (Julie Miller) and Carolina (Lizzie Hartman)
During our rehearsal of Sister Cities by Colette Freedman, I organized the actresses to do a long Improv in character as various venues in downtown Lawrence,KS. We used this exercise to explore the relationships between sisters and their mother. I am greatly influenced by film directors Mike Nichols, Spike Lee and Christopher Guest who often use improvisation in their film directing process. In Sister Cities, the characters love to play scrabble as a family game. We played scrabble in a cog=fee shop, went to various stores and 'shopped" for the sisters and hung out for about 3 hours. The actresses remained in character the entire time, improvising what their characters would do or say. Here are a few stills I took that day as the actresses interacted. Enjoy.
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