We're in tech rehearsals at Theatre in the Mill, in Bradford, and things are going well, but there's still so much to do...Last Wednesday I began to realise that this performance - despite having a more concise development period - is just as complex as Treasured or The Woods. At the time we were still finalising voice-over work, which at the start of the project I didn't expect be so crucial to the performance.
Right now Lewis is upstairs making extraordinarily complex and wonderful sounds for each scene. Due to complex set-up and time constraints he is building each scene in the space before we tech it. Progress is slow and steady, but when we get to the end of the scene it is clear it will be a brilliant thing.
Ben has also been surprised by the complexity of the lighting he is making - even though he is using a domestic light set up as his main light source - but the narrative asks for this complexity, and so that's what we're giving it!
The knock on effect of the necessarily slow tech is that Lucy and I will have less time to work with the new layers of design before we show it to an audience for the first time tomorrow night. I think it will be a "by the seat of our pants" performance... but I'm excited to see how it turns out!