It was a busy Sunday at Progress Theatre. The cast and crew of the Earnest/Travesties double bill took down their set in the morning. As it is less than three weeks until curtain up on Intimate Exchanges director Geoff Dallimore was there to help them get out as quickly as possible before starting to build his own set. By the time Progress Blog got there in the afternoon the first audition for Death and the Maiden had started. Every space in the theatre was filled with people threatening or pleading with each other - I assumed these were lines from the play.
There is plenty to be done for the set of Intimate Exchanges. There is the front end of a garden shed to be built as well as a platform for a performance within the play. The set building team were trying to work out how high the platform should be so Geoff got down on all fours and said "measure me" (26 inches if you're interested).
The run of Intimate Exchanges consists of two separate plays, A Self-improving Woman and A Gardener in Love. The two plays are exactly the same for the first twenty minutes and then diverge when one of the characters makes a decision. You can go and see both plays if you want to see what happens when the alternative path is taken but you don't need to, each of the plays can be enjoyed as a standalone piece.
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Coming up ….
Auditions for Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman. At Progress Theatre, Wednesday 31 March 7.30
Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn 14 - 24 April 2010
The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh 20 - 29 May 2010
See www.progresstheatre.co.uk for details of all our productions and auditions.
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