I missed some of the blocking of V,1, although of what I did see, we got some really good interaction between Paulina and Leontes. We had an early idea of opening the scene with Leontes prostrate on the floor, but decided that was probably a bit much. So we open with Paulina and Leontes sitting back-to-back on the floor, with Cleomenes and Dion (who probably spent the first six of the sixteen years figuring out whether to sit or stand when this sort of thing was going on) hovering anxiously nearby.
After that...if we though Autolycus was getting beat up the night before, it was nothing to what happened to him tonight. Basically we decided to have him not only snubbed by the three gentlemen at the beginning of V,2, but to have one of them actively beat him up, and the other accidentally. Paul is now getting pushed, shoved, smacked, and kicked, which will make him even more pathetic-looking when the Clown and Shepherd walk on at the end of that scene. Combining this very broad physical comedy with the absolute foppishness of the lords really enlivens what I had hitherto considered one of the most boring and annoying scenes in Shakespeare.
The quote for the evening is from Chepe, who, in talking to Natalie about French manicures, said, "I don't speak nail polish."