As the sunshine finally seems to be settling in as a normality rather than an exception, we look back to April and our closing play of the season, Ray Cooney’s farce ‘It Runs In The Family’.
Here are a few of the photos taken at dress rehearsal (courtesy as usual of our friend Dave Hackett).
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We have a great selection of photos from the play to show you in a few days or so – but before that a couple of posts about our experience of creating the production. Firstly, have a look at this little video of our set-destruction last Sunday, primarily for those who haven’t seen it on our Facebook page.
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Here is our time-lapse video of set-destruction – three days of hard work building it and three hours taking it all down.
And the above fails to show the team dismantling the platforms and tiers, the lifting of all the gear into the loft, dismantling back stage, returning masses of equipment back to our rehearsal room and more…
Wow. Excellent feedback from everyone on our now finished run of It Runs In The Family. It seems that a classic farce just tickles most people’s ribs, certainly from comments received and the laughter in the audience.
The after play party took place on stage late on Saturday night in a buoyant atmosphere – so here are a few photos of the earlier proceedings. However, once the pizzas had arrived and more wine was imbibed, the author of this page lost interest in photos….
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Here we are ready to go on our first night. It’s been an extremely busy few days as usual from building the set at the weekend, through Technical and then Dress rehearsal. Here’s a few photos to give you a little insight and a teaser for the play.
Erecting the platforms
Everything is either in the loft, or under the stage
Building the set
Dress rehearsal night, ready to go
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