Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

A Note From Gill at the end of Week one...

The first week of rehearsal has flown by and yet we seem to have been here for ages! I think that’s probably the intensity of the two workshops – in the first physical one, on day one! with Naomi from Frantic Assembly, we discovered muscles we hadn’t found for years! and the second with Lewis on unrehearsed Shakespeare made our brains hurt! But both incredibly useful, giving us a shared vocabulary to move forward with the production. 10 of the ‘Dream Trainee’ auditionees also joined us for these and made best use of the experience and opportunity.

The set is up and we’ve been ‘playing’ on it exploring how it can inform the text – Michelle always gives us a great playground for every show providing another layer of meaning. Costumes are on their way and as we go through the play we’re working out how the actors can change from one character to another – sometimes very quickly! & we’ve been playing with music both during the show and as preshow to add to the flavour and atmosphere of the whole production. All in all a very productive week.

Gill