Art

It was another busy Sunday at Progress Theatre in spite of the weekend's snow fall. In the foyer they were holding auditions for Mindgame by Anthony Horowitz.

In the theatre itself the set build team were busy scraping paint off some flats. They had painted them earlier in the day but then realised the old paint layers underneath gave it an uneven finish. For many sets this wouldn't matter but Art is set in a world where people buy expensive art and probably don't have peeling paint on their walls. Preparation is key as any DIYer knows!

I also spoke to director Glynn Oram  who showed me the first attempt at creating the art work central to the plot of Art. The play is about the controversy caused by a piece of art described in the script as "a canvas about 5 foot by 4, with a white background, completely white in fact, with fine white diagonal stripes." They have recreated this by painting the back of a piece of hardboard white. By using the back you get the textured effect of a canvas. When I saw it they hadn't yet added the "fine white diagonal stripes'. It also may not end up being the full 5 foot by 4, Progress stage is quite small and it may just look too big. Also a piece of hardboard that size is very heavy!

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Coming up -

Auditions for A Kind of Alaska, by Harold Pinter and Handbagged, by Moira Buffini Wednesday 8th February, 7.45 pm or Saturday 11th February, 2.30pm at Progress Theatre

Art by Yasmina Reza 20th - 25th February 2012, 7.45pm Progress Theatre

See Progress Theatre website for details of all our productions and auditions.