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.
Paul was building scenery and designing posters, Anne and Alan were gathering
props, costumes and funds. Andrea, Danny and Terri were marketing and publicising.
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.
Below are some photos of Paul building the scenery whilst reciting 75 pages of dialogue...
who says men can't multi-task!
Converting an old upright piano into this representation of the front of
a grand piano, then creating two windows frames....
The original old piano...
Burning the midnight oil, designing posters and programmes!
Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse....and then rehearse some more!
A quick break for Christmas...
OK that's enough break!...Back to rehearsals!....
