For those of you who don’t yet have Cloud 9 tickets (and for those of you who do, but know you’ll want to go again), we’ve just launched a contest to win a pair of tickets to the show, dinner for two, and a backstage tour.
Last night was our Tech Dress, the casts first run in full costume! They look truly amazing, Judith has done an incredible job.
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.
I knew the play was fierce, with a kind of gritty, intentionally flat use of language that is mercilessly naturalistic with none of the embellishments of American naturalism – say the self-conscious cadences and cut-offs of Mamet, the lyricism of Tennesse Williams, the tragic earnestness of Arthur Miller. Then, just when I’ve decided the language [...]
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