Bentwater Roads: Rehearsals Begin

The company has arrived - and my, isn't there a lot of them! The day begins with plenty of coffee and introductions, before settling down for a readthrough of the play. With a cast of 9, and a creative team of almost twice that number, we had to struggle to find enough chairs for everyone. The readthrough on day one of rehearsals is always an exciting time. We hear the characters' words spoken for the first time by the people who will be playing them.

The readthrough reminded us how good the play is - with lots of spinetingling moments. We open in exactly one month from today, so the pressure is on everybody almost immediately, not to mention the fact that the creative team has been working on this since the beginning of the year, and the Director and Writer began their work a number of years ago!

Once lunch was devoured, the company went off to their rehearsal space, the designer starts discussing costumes with his assistant, and I began to edit some of the video I had captured during the morning.

To work!