Week One From The Rehearsal Room

So now we're into week two it's time to let you know the gossip of week one!

We started off on an excellent foot on Monday with a brilliant read through after the Meet And Greet. Everyone seemed to really have a joint understanding of the play which is always a good sign for things to come. We took the opportunity in the afternoon to have a really good chat about the context of the piece and get some facts and research out there.

By day two Gary had us all jumping over each other, catching each other and falling over in his physical warm up. With it being a comedy, I think it was really important that we started from a very playful place. For the rest of the morning there was lots of playing with props, cross dressing and general silliness from the actors as they experimented with different characters and outcomes. 

 

Wednesday was a rather cold start filming our trailer out in the woods although it gave the actors a great opportunity to get back to nature and remind themselves what it felt like to frolic amongst the trees. Check out our trailer (coming soon!) for the results of this very brave shoot.

For the rest of the week we began to explore the scenes in Act One, making lots of discoveries for all the characters and really getting to grips with the language and world of the play. We ended a very exciting week by going over all the scenes we had looked at and we realised that it was actually loads!

A very successful week one all round I think.
Helen Barnett
Assistant Director