Spit and Polish

It's all coming together. Which is nice.

We've still got five weeks to go and we're now running each act a couple of times at each rehearsal.

Last night we did Act 2, which is starting to come up to the standard of Act 1. As everyone starts getting their lines off-pat and being confident as to where they are and what they are doing they are all beginning to react to each other in a real way, which is really bringing it to life.

I found myself with barely any notes to give. I think this is partly because I was absolutely shattered after a long week, but also because the whole group know what they are doing and now it's just a case of running the play over and over until it's polished.

Of course, we may run into the problem of people being too complacent then. But we'll see...

Teechers...

A 2nd post in 5 minutes!?!

Just to urge anyone who reads this to get their tickets for Teechers ASAP.

Award-winning local drama group, Ottershaw Players, present 'Teechers'. The play, by John Godber, will be performed at 7.45pm, on 27th and 28th April 2007, at the Brook Hall, Brox Road, Ottershaw.

It's the end of term and 3 school-leavers put on a play to say goodbye to a much-liked drama teacher. Fast moving, inventive and highly entertaining, Teechers vigorously evokes life at a modern Comprehensive, sketching a drama teacher's progress through two terms of recalcitrant classes, cynical colleagues and obstructive caretakers until he departs for the safer waters of a private school.

Director Clare Groome says, “It has been great fun working with such a talented trio of young actors. We received plaudits from colleagues, friends and family for our production of Act One of the play at last year's Woking Drama Festival, so we were really happy to get the chance to present the whole play at Brook Hall for a local audience.”

Tickets are priced at £8 for adults, £6 concessions, and can be purchased from the Ottershaw Players box office on 01932 702091.

Onwards

A bit of a gap since I last (first!) posted.

We had a week off from rehearsals, over Easter, and I've been feeling a bit disconnected from the play. I think that's mostly due to the house move and the fact that I'm still settling in to the new job.

But we're now halfway through the rehearsal schedule and things are starting to come together:

Sunday night was the first chance for our props lady, Claire, to see the show; along with Brian who's going to ASM. And they were very positive about the work in progress (we worked on the first third of the play this week).

Having a bunch of props certainly helped, and everyone's taken my request to work on their lines during the time off very seriously, so characterisation has taken leaps forward.

All in all, I'm very pleased with how it's going.