No show, no props, no set.
The room was
empty for a while, then some croissants arrived and then some people, in ones
or twos and stood around with that first day of rehearsals kind of awkwardness.
Everything has to begin somewhere so of course there is a first day but really
you just want it to fast-forward to day two. That said, by 11.30 opening the
space to the creative team and performers had filled an entire wall with A4
paper, suggesting enough material for about 3 shows on female pirates, which is
exciting and daunting. An idea on a piece of paper is full of promise and
potential but it is also 2d, unmade, and requires a commitment to some hard
work to breath life into its potential.
The week, as they do, begins slowly and then
gets faster and faster. The room fills with polystyrene mannequin heads,
skateboards, pirate hats, a parrot (of course), and a ladder. Before we know
it, it's Friday and the week has disappeared, cue more worry about how we are
ever going to work fast enough if this week is anything to go by! But playing
the game of doing a Friday afternoon 'run through', even though we have very
little concrete material, pays off.
The performers before our eyes seem to find
their pirate mojos and an excitement begins to bubble up inside me about the
potential of what we really have, the 3D material already created, and the week
ends with a spirit of 'aharrrrr'.
Lucy Foster
Director
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Hey Mojo!
Lucinka, Simone and Chloe |
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Working with some of the props! |
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Pirates on skateboards - Whatever next? |