The weekend was mostly spent organizing things for the week ahead: taking our postcard design to the printer, working on the rehearsal schedule, trimming the script, talking to some of the actors about the trimming, working briefly with our Assistant Director, Andrew McNaughton, to get our wee video done, chat with Designer Brandon Kleiman, seeing a play,...
Read MoreBooking a Tantie- End of Week Two
Time and Money…Time and money- we’ll just have to make it work with the Time that we have… This is what was going through my head a lot yesterday- while we were doing our first stagger-through of the play. The actors were doing really well in the scenes that we’ve rehearsed, it’s just that we need more time together as a full...
Read MoreJuly 15th- marching and cardboard
I mentioned last week that two of the challenges of making a piece of theatre in the current rehearsal process are our old chums/enemies time and money… Well, for the first time in almost two weeks of rehearsal we had everyone in the room at the same time- and I am compelled to write that it was delightful, truly delightful! and we enjoyed nearly an...
Read MoreJuly 14th- Choral work a go-go
We worked a lot today on choral sections of the play- But we’ll be dressing the actors in The Sad and Cautionary Tale of Smackheaded Peter in contemporary clothes, rather than traditional Greek costumes. During the morning I remind myself a few times that conforming to choral work or ‘speaking with one voice’ can be challenging for many...
Read MoreHeroin and baby steps
Day One, Week 2 Slowly slowly, baby steps- That’s what I kept telling myself as we were working on the first two of three heroin hallucinations today. It’s a challenge to bring the experience of this drug coursing through someone’s veins into a theatre experience… One of the fascinating things about this play is that a couple of the...
Read MoreSunday, July 11th- coiling the spring
We had a very good first week- hanging out in the world of Thamesmead and Smackheaded Peter. Here’s the welcome sign to Thamesmead in south-east London, England. Almost through the play for the first time- and lots of excellent investigation of the scenes, characters going on. I’ve had a super time working with everyone- and am looking forward...
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