Hello! A lot has been going on in the last couple of weeks, and stress levels are definitely going up with performance day looming. Yesterday was our tech day so I was in from 9am on standby for when Alice S. needed me. A lot of it was staying quiet and letting Naomi, Michael C. and Alice programme everything and make sure the stage was set. We didn’t have the boxes for the set (see Hannah’s blogs for more on these!) so we had bare light bulbs on the stage just to get ideas for spacing and where everything would be. The cast and Michael W. joined us at 11.30 and Verity and I explained that the most important role today was to be quiet and make sure we’re not being disruptive until we are called to the stage. It took a while to get going and as we hadn’t been on stage running the piece all of our spacing was a little different. In terms of the run we did, it was a disappointment to the piece and it actually let down the tech. I think that because it was our first time in the space with the full tech there were a lot of new elements to deal with and the performance wasn’t up to the standard it should have been.
There are some new elements to the performance as well, on Tuesday (the day before yesterday) we got a final running order, which meant a lot of late night editing cue sheet for the production team but at least we had it in time! Michael and Rachel also decided to make the wife leaving scene more ensemble work which is where our strength as a company is, however what it means is that we now all dance! This is not a strength of mine so I’m panicking about it rather a lot. Another thing slightly panicking me is that it’s taking me a long time to pick up the steps, because the way I learn best is by watching it repeatedly (like when we did the office scene) I’ve asked Rachel if she can upload a video so that I can go over it in my own time because we’re running low on rehearsal time now, so fingers crossed that will happen in the next couple of days so I can stop worrying so much!
Another scene that looked a little lacklustre in the tech was the ribbon sequence: I’m unsure as to whether this is because of the new spacing or if it was just a bad run today but it’s definitely something that needs to be prioritised in our rehearsals in the next week!
All in all things are looking very positive for ‘The Man Whose Memories Fell Out’, we just need to make sure all our transitions are smooth and finish off the rough endings to scenes.
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