Very excited!!!

Hi Everyone!

Don't know if any of you will remember me? Worked on the 'Play in a Day' with the Wales branch of this ever growing dynasty. Just wanted to say that I came along to a rehearsal the other night and saw some outstanding acting going on - keep up the good work you talented bunch!

Been with Peri this week helping to get things ready.... all very exciting. Really looking forward to joining in next week with bits and pieces and can't wait for the final performances!!

Loving this blog. Some really interesting things going on here.

I've been doing my yoga (not really) to keep calm in the run up and I'll get Peri to do some too so that we don't have to experience 'Nasty Peri' next week! Good luck to everyone all over the world!!!! :-)

Eloise

Video welcome from Slough

One week to go!

There's only one week to go untill opening night here in Nelson! We spent yesterday working out costume changes which mainly happen live on stage for all 50 characters! It was our first time in the space too which was pretty exciting.

Today we have a run to show the tech team the shape of the show and I hope the cast just enjoy telling the story and work together to solve any problems that sneek up on them!

Am really excited to see how well everything is going in both Slough and Brynamman. Its been cool pulling together to make an international shared programme, sound scape and pre-show project video.

It would be great to hear all the thoughts and expectations of the cast and crew in each project. If you get a chance let us know which bits of the show your really enjoying and maybe what your finding challenging in rehearsals.

Keep up the fantastic work everybody!

Sarah- Nelson Director

Soooo Excited!

Here we are in Wales in rehearsal on the NZ school scene. This is Polly our Julie character and thats Tash our Stage manager in the background - working hard as usual! Unfortunatley Charlie, our Miss Kershaw in the photo on the right, has been poorly this last week and had to be rushed to hospital. However she is making a speedy recovery with a mind to get back into the swing and ready for production week. We all miss her very much though and can't wait to have her back! GET WELL SOON CHARLIE!!!

In the meanitime we have now started working on the chorus in betweeny sections to drive the story forward and things are coming along nicely...we have a half masked chorus as well as full masked shadow people of the Welsh villagers like the baker and librarian and Mine Owner. Our chorus has become very quirky and they're a bit like some of the aliens from Doctor Who!

Anyway, we've now received all of Dan Solo's tunes from Slough and can't wait to start putting everything together tonight. The Wales Film crew Subjective Realities are on the case in prep for the preshow introduction film and the sound bites of the actors introducing themselves - should be ariving the post v. soon!

Its all so exciting now but we must remember to stay focussed, look after ourselves - i.e. make sure we all get lots of sleep and plenty of vitamins and most of all ENJOY EVERY LAST MOMENT!