Bentwater Roads: Come On England!

The thought on everyone's mind was ‘who will get to see England's last group game?'. After a successful run of the entire play, the first run of the show in its entirety, Ivan read out the list for the afternoon rehearsals. Dan and I were elated to find we weren't on the list and could watch the match while Mark was visibly distraught. I think we all threw ourselves into the morning run of the play with gusto hoping we'd be so impressive we'd all get the afternoon off. 

Practicality always needs to kept in mind and we are quickly creeping up on our technical week (where all the lights, sound, set, costumes and props are worked into the play and the current blocking is rejigged to fit the larger space) this means its our last chance for final touch ups on the acting itself.

With our replacement Mal and Commander arriving tomorrow with just Thursday and Friday for rehearsing Ivan had no real choice but to work on the non-Mal scenes. Though I did happily hear Mark and the others were finished with the pagan scenes early enough to catch the last 10 minutes of the game.

I stopped in at ‘West End Music' on my way into rehearsals in the morning and they kindly let me borrow a mouth piece for the ram's horn. Now I'm bellowing away on it and hitting my sound cues as long as I remember when they are.

Karen has recorded an interview with a former Bentwater's US Airforce Pilot called Wylie and I'm soaking up the accent, attitude and information as I type out my blog for the day, on what has been the most beautifully sunny day of 2010 (so far, fingers crossed.)