Hi there. My name is Raphael Kepinski and I'm going to give you a behind the scenes look at the rehearsals of Felix Culpa's Revenge. I'll be posting a bunch of photos from the rehearsals and whatever else comes to my mind. One thing you should remember though; rehearsing a play is pretty boring work, most of the time it's done in a drably lit room, with malnourished actors ambling about trying to figure out what's going on and why the director is yelling at them. Things are done over and over and over and over ad nauseum and everyone is tired and confused. It's not until the costumes and lights are in place, and everyone knows their lines and where to stand that the show becomes a something, so with that in mind don't expect this to be some glamorous exciting show biz blog but rather a look at a work in progress.
Stay tuned cause next up are pictures of the set with lights and colour.
Then Jimmy flips through his notebook of notes that he took during the run and lets them fly. 
Anna Hagan writes fast. Some actors get sulky if they get a particularly mean note. 
But in the end it's all about making the show better. 
They do it again. Jimmy and Rachel Peake, assistant to the director confer. 
Actors James Pizzinato and Anna Hagan watch and wait for their turn.
Jimmy makes more changes and they play out the scene again until someone is happy or until it's time for lunch. 
This week the production moves closer to the performance space and begins to rehearse at the Firehall rehearsal space. Stay tuned for images from the Firehall... Here's a great action shot to leave you out on. (Don't worry no one got hurt in the making of that)
A little water...
...and some grounds. 
=happy groggy actors ready to act their hearts out. Without coffee, and our assistant stage manager there would be no show. 
Also strange props just keep coming... The Blog returns on Tuesday with more exciting posts.
Well I promised you real actors acting but I've done you one better; real actors stabbing. It was stab day today, with the show's writer, David Bloom putting on his fight coordinator hat and choreographing one of the shows more bloody sequences. Here actors Michael Eisner and James Pizzinato first get to know their weapons.
Michael tries to do some kind of lame twirly trick with his knife. 
And he gets stabbed in the back for his trouble by James. 
Enough fooling around, It's time for David Bloom to step in and show them how it's done. 
Then James has a go. 
A lot of people get stabbed. 
Also today this weird prop arrived. Stay tuned for more....
Revenge is being rehearsed at the Playhouse rehearsal space.
This is what the building looks like.
It's near this little construction site and they have these neat trucks.
The last picture is the room we rehearse in.
Up Next.....Real Actors Rehearsing
