Our first play, "Private Lives", involved 6 months of preparation

with the whole company playing a part...as we wanted to do Noel Coward proud.

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Paul was building scenery and designing posters, Anne and Alan were gathering

props, costumes and funds. Andrea and Daniel were marketing and publicising.

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For the two lead roles it was 6 months of rehearsing and memorising hundreds of lines of dialogue, exploring many ways of developing the characters and delivering lines,

and for the supporting roles it was 3 months of the same.

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Below are some photos of Paul building the scenery whilst reciting 75 pages of dialogue...

who says men can't multi-task!

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Converting an old upright piano to look like the front of a grand piano,

plus building two windows frames....

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The original old piano...

which became this...

and here is how it was done...

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Cutting off the top and bottom and removing an incredibly heavy iron harp!

Phew that was tough!

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now to clean all the keys so they move smoothly...

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and so begins the painting...

Building the hotel windows!

insert 2 giant photos and we have a room with a view!

Burning the midnight oil, designing posters and programmes!