In the Priests House Museum, looking a little like a bookshop from the front, there is a door through to a secret garden out the back (that feels a little like stepping into Narnia) and there you find a cafe and next to it, our performance space. A blank box to start with, this performance and the one the following day were to text that the set worked, and due to technical dificulties at rehearsals to see if the projection would work in the space with the music, within the area that we had.
Despite some minor technical difficulties before the show started when our projector inexplicably stopped working, the performance went well with the curtains providing the actors some much needed wing space and shielded the laptop that was in charge of both the projector images and the music from the view of the audience.
Before the performance there were still some jobs to do that were unrelated to set and when a couple of buttons came off the military jackets in the final rehearsal and the helmet used was too loose, I volunteered my sewing skills in repairing them.
After the main show, their was a section called 'hot seating', where the audience got to cross examine the characters as to their motives in the story, and where they ended up and why. This was incredibly interesting as it made the actors have to become their characters absolutely, knowing absolutely what they would have done and why to any given question and really having to think fast on their feet as the audience were free to ask anything they wanted to.
From this, there were parts of the set that I would like to change - parts I would like to paint, some minor alterations to the curtains, projections that I would like to alter slightly, additions to the first scene and more of the camouflage netting used! I want the netting to be over both of the 'wing' curtains rather then just on one side. There were minor notes, such as parts of set being brought on and not taken off when they were meant to be, but these all come with opening night and are easy enough to resolve!
I have recieved a report from Tony that at the Bridport show last night there were 40 attending the afternoon show and 80 for the show in the evening! Now there is a 3 week gap, with the next performance being at Melbury Osmond on the 11th of October, and very exciting, so I have 3 weeks to make any and all changes that I want.
Here is a fantastic review that I was sent by Tony Horitz, the co-author of the piece;
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