Enjoy door practice

When I last wrote about Enjoy I mentioned that they needed some extra actors to take on non-speaking roles. They have now found some volunteers and they were at their first rehearsal on Tuesday night. Also at its first rehearsal was a functional front door.

Doors are difficult to work with on stage (never work with children, animals ...or doors). They take time to open and shut, actors have to remember when to close them and when to leave them open and the door itself can block the audience's view of the action. The scene I watched being rehearsed was fairly short but did involve the door so a lot of time was spent trying different ways of opening the door and places to stand. All further complicated by having to find space for two extra people on the stage. Director Peter Charles has assigned all the cast extra door practice.

Door Practice

 

 

 

 

Producer Mandy King told me about another problem they had with the door. It has a working letter box that they fitted on before fixing the door into position, at which point they realised it was upside down. Taking it out and reinstalling it the right way round proved more difficult than putting it in the first place. I think Mandy learnt some good new swear words though.

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Coming up...


Enjoy by Alan Bennett 6th - 11th June 2011

Progress Youth Theatre Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas 4th - 11 July 2011

Open air production The Tempest by William Shakespeare 23rd - 30th July 2011

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