THE SHOW! Remix Gold - 'Touched'

THE SHOW

Last Friday it was on to the Southbank Centre in London for three performances for the Southbank Centre's 'Unlimited' festival! We were given two dressing rooms, and I based myself in the ladies dressing room (for anyone wondering, the Southbank Centre has incredibly nice dressing rooms and was absolutely lovely to us in my limited contact with them)

I arrived a half hour before the cast was expected in order to meet with Alice and Claire, the organisers and masterminds of the performance, and as I arrived was able to see the crew setting up the stage under the Hungerford bridge. After being taken up to the dressing room I got to spend a good amount of time up there by myself setting up the space - putting the costumes on rails, setting out the gloves and shoes in sections for the performers to be based in, laying out the hair products and make-up that I was providing (though many of the cast were bringing there own as a matter of personal preference in the colours that I had requested )

After the cast arrived, they needed a run out of costume, but we realised that once they had had their run through we would only have just over 10 minutes before they would need to go down for the first show, so with the assistance of Alice and the company carers we started getting them in as much of their make-up as we could (leaving off anything that would be smudged by putting on the costumes) and those who's hair we could before they went for their run. After the cast went down I went on a quick run for spares - you can never have enough make-up wipes or spare make-up! - then it was back up to the dressing rooms to get everyone in costume and ready. Just before the run our interpreter had arrived and so I got to see her in costume for the first time and it fit! Not only that but seeing them all together was a treat, as while all the costumes were different, they all gelled into a cohesive unit of 1950's style meets modern day.

Audience reaction at the end of the final show - if you look you can see part of where they all were standing on the bridge above to watch as well!

So without further ado, it was time to go down for the first show! There was a slightly longer gap between the first and second shows then there was before the last, allowing the performers to get out of costume for a short while to have lunch and then to get back into costume and make-up, and for me to re-do their hair, and the shows were a great success.

During the final show there was a minor software glitch that meant that one of the dance numbers got cut short, so they decided that they would do the dance number again as an encore at the end. This also meant that for the first time the wings were visible when the performer was mobile rather then sitting in the hoop at the end of the show.

Working with Remix Gold really was an incredible experience. Going from recieving the brief to designing the costumes to making, sourcing and adapting the costumes in the space of a month has been an incredible experience, and now the show is done in its first set of performances! Next Remix Gold are performing 'Touched' at the weekend for the Inside Out festival, so if you're in the area go down and take a look!