Its nerve-wrecking to know that we are only one week away from the performance in Hiram Bingham, moreover, the fact that we still don't have everything ready is more worrying. While we were viewing at the PPP example that got full marks, I realized that the most important thing that one has to have in order to create a good PPP is a clear vision. Once the vision is more or less concise, everything will flow easily. And that, in my case, is what lacked in this performance. I didn't have a vision on how I wanted the play to be like from the beginning, so instead I kind of started building the play little by little and let it take its own shape. I think that is why we may be struggling the way we are in the rehearsals, in terms of not knowing what is happening, or in which direction the play has to progress, because we don't have a clear shared vision. I guess that is why we made the pitch, to have a clearer idea, but even after having done the pitch I'm still unable to justify the metallic scenery for example, or what were ultimately trying to get across. That's why I still don't see the connection between what my character does and the message of the play, thus I feel like the actions are empty. The vision should be the foundations, or starting point of the play, and the fact that I didn't have one makes this whole creation fall apart at times, you need a string foundation so the building doesn't fall over. Today at the rehearsal I noticed the stage was too big for our performance, and the only way for it to work is to open the curtain just enough so it marks the boundaries of "limbo", and as the Hiram Bingham's stage is also quite big that might be a problem. The coordination in the part where Nicolas and I are being pulled to the sides is getting better, but it will be crucial that we time it perfectly so that the illusion is not lost, we need to find its rhythm. We still have a lot of things to finish and polish before were ready to present our play, and we have to move fast. Clearly by having had a better, or at least a hint of a vision at the beginning of the process would've made things happen a lot easier, so I'm unsure about the method of making the play in a group, and then working separately on the script, because everyone ends up putting their own vision in different parts, and when putting everything together it will be like trying to fit in pieces of different puzzles together, they just wont fit. The exercise we did on Friday, of creating our play based on the stimulus of a spider web was very interesting, and I think everyone felt confident about what they had created because their vision was clear, and from there we could've started creating a play with more ease.

Is it possible to create a play without a vision, to just start building out of an idea and let it take its own shape?
Has this ever happened?