There was a time when I was directing that I would have these monster study sessions where I would sit down with the script and spend hours digging through the scripts and taking notes. This habit, I am sure, comes from graduate school in which we were given very little time to write a small encyclopedia about the play. For years, I thought this was the only way to do it. Unfortunately, the other habit that followed from grad school is the urge to procrastinate until the very last moment. I do not know how that made the project any more fun or effective, but old habits die hard. But that has changed. Read more