While rehearsing Heart of Darkness, our first english-language production, Doris and I struggled for quite some time with how to flesh out the story’s „heavy,“ trying to make him neither a laughing stock character nor a caricature nor a bore.

This led not only to a plethora of minor and major script corrections. Finally we also came up with the idea to base the heavy on Robert Mitchum’s performance in Night of the Hunter.

I’m very curious how this will turn out.