Progress Blog was able to sit in on a recent rehearsal of The Pillowman. 
It was held in the theatre foyer as the set build team were busy on the stage.
The scene we watched being rehearsed was an enactment of one of the gruesome stories at the heart of the play. This one involves a girl being crucified, a scene which manages to be comic and disturbing at the same time. Lucy Daly (see here) is playing the girl and Matt Tully and Ben Lawson, who play the two detectives take on the role of her parents in this story.
Matt featured in last week's post and Ben, a fellow graduate of the Rep College, is new to Progress. He was so impressed when he read the play that he auditioned even though he is commuting from Cambridge. For the role he has had to learn to make and fly paper aeroplanes - an important life skill. He also has to throw toes (don't ask!) a skill it is rather more difficult to imagine a use for in daily life.
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Coming up...
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh 20 - 29 May 2010
Death and The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman 5 - 10 July 2010
See www.progresstheatre.co.uk for details of all our productions and auditions.
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