We’ve got a break today to enjoy the first day of 2010. But yesterday we were in the rehearsal hall, starting the morning off with a particularly heated discussion about the artistic merits of Susan Boyle. No conclusions were reached.
Yesterday most of the cast got to play rough with John Stead, fight director extraordinaire. It started off with Ann-Marie (playing 9-year-old Edward) getting the brunt of it, tussling with Evan over a doll and then receiving convincing slaps from both Evan (as mother Betty – note the ever-present heels) and Megan. Then it was David’s turn to give Ann-Marie a nice smack across the head.
On the Sunday rehearsal before the Christmas break, I dropped everything I had been doing with Betty, my second act character.
It’s early days of rehearsal, but David Jansen is getting right into character. In Act One he plays the patriarch of the family Clive, and in a brilliant bit of casting (suggested originally by playwright Caryl Churchill, and embraced by director Alisa Palmer) he plays five-year-old Cathy in Act Two.
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