Teching Anything Goes this week. It’s been an excellent week so far… We’ve had our Lighting sessions. We’ve had our sound session. We’ve had our mic checks and last night we finished our spacing rehearsals. I decided to use one of our Q to Q sessions to continue spacing work because… Our set has four levels on it and a...
Read MoreSummerWorks and beyond
The past three weeks have sped by. SummerWorks ended very well. We had a super audiences for our three performances- and I was extremely pleased with how the play gelled over the run. It was an immense pleasure to work with the company on this beast of a play! We were listed in the Best Ensemble Category of Now Magazine’s ‘wrap up’ of the...
Read MoreTwo Different Beasts
It’s getting late- and it’s been quite a week. Again, it’s a wonderful problem- lots on my plate at present… Two very different approaches for two very different productions. The Sad and Cautionary Tale of Smackheaded Peter, very organic and it’s evolving reaaallly well! Anything Goes- In between listening to music calls and...
Read MoreTapping Teens- Day Two
That’s the banner poster for Anything Goes at The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. Today was Day Two of rehearsals. We have 42 in the cast. The Grand has a great tradition of mentoring, so twice a year they create productions with high school students from London and the surrounding area. In the spring it’s a play, (this year I directed...
Read MoreCross-over days
We had a full day with the full company of The Sad and Cautionary Tale of Smackheaded Peter yesterday. I was looking forward to the day with extreme excitement. We did worked on some transitions, did a run-through, had a production meeting, changed the beginning of the play, worked more transitions and then had a sound design meeting. That’s the...
Read MoreA Crackin’ Day! Tues. July 20th
A big day- we went through most of the choral sections of the play, making leaps and bounds forward in our exploration and there were some very exciting moments. Here’s the company rehearsing a scene from the play- when the people of Thamesmead learn about Smackheaded Peter’s vision of bringing peace on earth with low-cost heroin… (A...
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