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The first challenge of creating All Good Men was to take a very complex 153 scene movie script, and adapt that for the theater. I reduced the number of characters and settings in order to achieve something that would be comprehensible in a stage setting. I removed about two thirds of the characters, and compressed plot development within scenes, creating – in the end – a 22 scene theater script that was our starting point. I loved the original script for its complexity, but in order to turn it into a successful dance theater production I needed to take out some of that complexity to allow room for the non-verbal communication (dance.)

My approach in staging the production was not to ask the dance to replace the theatrical scene, but to allow the dance/movement to augment the script. This video shows to scenes. In the first scene on this video we hear the main character discussing the day’s events with his wife. On the stage we see the characters being discussed, and witness their emotional/physical experience. In the second scene we see bodies stacking up behind the main character who, who we again hear speaking in the recording.