From Going Postal to going Polish

The next production at Progress is A couple of poor English-speaking Poles by Dorota Maslowska 1 - 6 March 2010.

Christine Moran who has just finished directing the very successful run of Going Postal is going to be on the stage for A couple of poor English-speaking Poles. As well as being an experienced director Chris is also a trained actor. She appeared most recently in A Right Mouthful by Liz Carroll which was shown at Progress and at the Camden Theatre Festival.

In this production she plays a drunk woman so if you've seen her in the bar she was just researching her character! Her role is fairly small, she is at the very beginning and end and in one other scene so she was able to combine rehearsals with directing Going Postal. The most difficult thing has been finding a time to learn her lines when she wasn't too tired to retain them.

The cast is a mixture of old and new faces at Progress, including another survivor from Going Postal, Matt Drury, who played Igor and Devious Collabone. The play is very episodic, rather like a road movie, so there are large sections of it that Chris hasn't seen yet. She is looking forward to rehearsing a full run of the play so that she can see what everyone else has been up to. Mainly she is just relieved to only have to think about one character rather than thirty seven.

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The next production is A couple of poor English-speaking Poles by Dorota Maslowska 1 - 6 March 2010.

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