Captains Log: Are we Too Cool for School?
Wow! Day One of our Play in the Week Intensive and it’s an absolute blast already! 10 intrepid performers entered into our rehearsal space this morning, scripts in hand and lunches packed. They had a serious mission, well not that serious, but SERIOUS fun to be had whilst creating an epic debut performance of original […]
Fringe Virgin Part Deux: Learning to Curve
So the last two days have been a game of two halves, lurching from one extreme to the other and learning alot about this experience and all those taking part. Yesterday we had no-one to play to. Zero audience. So is a play still a play if there’s no audience? Well there was no play. […]
Fringe Virgin Part Deux: The Show Must Go On…..
Apologies for those of you who were waiting with bated breath for yesterday’s blog post. Frankly I was exhausted. Between walking so far that I think I should be recording that famous Proclaimers song, schlepping a gazillion posters between venue and giant poles on the Royal Mile that by this point are only held up […]
Fringe Virgin Part Deux: The Teenage Years
So, here I am again, not so much a Fringe Virgin but a worldly-wise, weather beaten, ready for anything Fringe Pro – or am I?? This time I am accompanied by a new breed of actors, springing from the torment and adult trauma of That Face by Polly Stenham in 2017 to the youthful joy […]
Experimenting and Exploring
So we are over half way and getting into the final pages of the text. This part is difficult and needs a great deal of care and attention. There is so much in the news at the moment about the mental well being of young people and with the announcement today of a terrifying statistic […]
The Chaos of Youth
So, we have hit Day Three with a bit of an exhausted glow…we are doing well but it’s full on and these girls are working hard. In response we have spent the day in more discussion about the ever evoling nature of the piece and the ultimate question of what we want to leave our […]
Rewrites, Rehearsal and Radio
So, end of Day Two and the cast have been fantastic. Here’s one of them to tell you about it……over to Hannah Greig! “We had an amazing start to our day with a run of all the blocking we did on day one; in which there was clear progress on learning the lines that we […]
Day One – Discussion, Development & Drawing
It’s been a fascinating start to our week long project, with four talented and engaging young women on board to begin the development of our chosen text ‘Gorgeous’ by Anna Furse. Over the course of the week we will be delving deep into the current situation for young women, how it feels to be living […]
New Cast, New Discoveries
So as we approach a new academic year, both school tours are getting a fresh cast and some new development time. It’s always super exciting to see what new actors will bring to the text and today was our first opportunity to get to grips with the epic final scene from That Face by Polly […]
The Good, The Bland and the Ugly Truth/Fringe Virgin
TODAY IS OUR LAST SHOW!!! This news comes tinged with both sadness and relief. Sadness because it is always lovely to watch this cast perform and see audiences respond to our work AND we’ve met some great people here but relief because I get to go home and see my family. On telling other performers […]