Going Postal with Gaffer Tape

Progress Blog was shocked to walk into the theatre foyer last Sunday morning and find Going Postal Artistic Director Aidan Moran winding gaffer tape round Carole Brown’s chest. There was an innocent explanation - this is the ingenious way they are constructing the costume for Carole’s part in Going Postal as Anghammarad an 18000 year old Golem.

Rik Eke was also busy in the foyer making casts for the THUD! pieces Aidan has made from air drying clay. THUD! is a chess-like game played with trolls and dwarfs. It features in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels as a way of communicating and devising political strategies. This is one of the details that the team are adding to this production of Going Postal that will delight Terry Pratchett fans. Some characters that feature in the novels but are not in the play have been introduced to crowd scenes, for example C.M.O.T. Dibbler and Otto Chriek, the Vampire photographer.

Progress Blog has never read a Terry Pratchett novel (cue horrified gasps!) so I was a bit concerned that this production might not be for me. Aidan reassured me that the play is accessible to Pratchett virgins. The extra details will add depth for fans but won’t detract from the plot.  

The set has been designed to allow quick fluid changes and includes three revolves as well as scrolling windows and tapestries. The technical team have already been planning for three months and are designing it so that it can be built in modules. 

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Adapted by Stephen Briggs runs from 28 January - 6 February 2010 with matinees on 30 January & 6 February 2010.  

Tickets are available from the Hexagon 0118 9606060.

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Coming up ….

Auditions for A couple of poor English-speaking Poles by Dorota Maslowska. Tuesday 8th December 2009 7.30 at Progress Theatre.

Auditions for Alan Ayckbourn’s Intimate Exchanges Sunday 6 December 2009, 1.30pm to 4pm and Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 7.30pm to 10pm at Progress Theatre.

Next Production is Don Juan Comes Back From The War by Odon von Horvath.Tuesday 15th to Thursday 17th December 2009 at 7:45pm.

See www.progresstheatre.co.uk for more details of all our productions and auditions.