Week one of ‘Dying for It’

This week marked the first week back at college (already, really?) working on my next show ‘Dying For it’ set in 19^th century Russia. As ever we started with a read-through (funny how that always happens, almost like there is system for these things) and it seems like it is going to be a very funny play (it is a farce, so I’d expect it to be). The rest of my week has been spent trying to make a start on the extensive props list which seems to pretty much cover all the complicated things that you could think of (I do like a challenge).

Saturday saw me and the team wandering around markets for various props, to a surprising amount of success. Sunday marked my first trip to Bristol for the year to see ‘The Snow Queen’ at the Bristol Old Vic. As well as seeing the show it was a lovely opportunity to catch-up with Dee. As luck would have it we met as I got off the train as she had popped to Cardiff that morning by chance and unbeknownst to us we had been on the same train. As a result I had a lovely guided tour of Bristol before wandering across to the Old Vic. You may remember avid readers (seriously find something else to do) that I saw a version of this before Christmas at the New Vic. This was a very different production set in a more modern world using the story as a foundation and building upon it with rather broad strokes, but good fun none the less; another fantastic feel good family show. It was lovely to be able to catch-up with Dee, but before long it was time to wander back to Cardiff as ever.