All of that is easy compared to what lies ahead, but the challenge of the play is not to play the end of the play. All of that goes into the coping mechanisms of survivors. So that the end is a devastating surprise for everyone . You must tap into your own fears and pains and anxieties. And you remember.
Dreams come up and nightmares come up.
Now you're in touch with the loss of parents, the loss of lives, the loss of relationships, anything that reminds you of loss and grieving. Once you get the understanding of the feelings, you describe them with behavior. Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was. That's one way that it's a bit easier, and having said that, there's nothing easy about it at all. Except that in the giving of it, there's such an outreach in this show.