It's the end of a very intense time, it has been b-e-a-u-tiful and phantasmagoria is now ready to be shown. I will see you tomorrow. Cast and crew, thanks for a phantastic time.
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Friday, 29 July 2011
DAY 4
The bat signal is in the sky. Hawkwoman, Warrior Princess, Black Cat Baristow and Captain Herefordshire assemble! The Edinburgh Avengers are now complete.
The whole cast assembled. And then slowly cooked in a very hot rehearsal room.
Pigeon boy strikes with a direct hit. HOLY SHcrIpT. One bird pooh for good luck and we went home to cook chicken.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
DAY 3
Sexual healing.
Lusting lips
Bedridden for the day
Punching
Grievous bedily harm
Ruby and Josh explored a number of improvised scenes, one of which where they played themselves as if waking up next to each other one morning after an accidental night of passion.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Meet the Cast: Matt Holt
Hello there, I'm Matt and I'll be playing Robin. Robin is a simple good hearted fellow who loves nothing more than to chat about the weather with a seven year old girl whilst chowing down on some red kidney beans. This is actually my favourite pastime so I immediately felt at one with him.
His best friend is Hawker, the aforementioned seven year old. Whilst Hawker seems older than her years, Robin could be considered the opposite, finding more in common with her than anyone else in the play.
He remains a caring, faithful and innocent feature throughout the drama that unfolds around him.
I was originally drawn to the part due to the description of Robin as 'weird and goofy' and a big personal challenge for me will be to make Robin my own weird and goofy. In the original run he was played by someone else (someone who happens to be the king of weird and goofy) so I will try to take inspiration from him but at the same time forge my own Robin out of the dust created by his big, departing shoes. Whether I will fill those shoes, or merely resole the tattered remnants of what they once were remains to be seen, but by gum, hoist up the sails and some other rousing phrase will I give it a good go.
His best friend is Hawker, the aforementioned seven year old. Whilst Hawker seems older than her years, Robin could be considered the opposite, finding more in common with her than anyone else in the play.
He remains a caring, faithful and innocent feature throughout the drama that unfolds around him.
I was originally drawn to the part due to the description of Robin as 'weird and goofy' and a big personal challenge for me will be to make Robin my own weird and goofy. In the original run he was played by someone else (someone who happens to be the king of weird and goofy) so I will try to take inspiration from him but at the same time forge my own Robin out of the dust created by his big, departing shoes. Whether I will fill those shoes, or merely resole the tattered remnants of what they once were remains to be seen, but by gum, hoist up the sails and some other rousing phrase will I give it a good go.
Day 2
Moncreif got into a beanbag
The bricks of flyers arrived...
Malone ruffled her hair
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Day 1
Malone and Moncrief arrived and were put straight into bed...
Improvisations varied from accosting the crowd while watching a french film, to Malone being sick on herself at Thorpe park.
There were confrontations...
Anxieties...
And an episode of coffee shakes.
In these weeks of making this work we dream constantly of being lost.
“We’re off the route… we’re off the route…”
I sn't that the definition of liveness in performance?
Where safe passage back to the everyday is no longer assured.
Tim Etchells.
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