Panto Panic
I haven’t posted about the panto I’m directing for a while… The main reason being that it has been too hectic to say anything coherent.
We’ve had a number of problems; the biggest of which was the loss of one of the dames and the other being ordered to be somewhere else on the night of the second performance. After a lot of discussion and begging, we have managed to find someone to stand in for the missing dame and have pulled the performance 2 weeks to the left! This doesn’t make life very easy for the cast as they have to cram everything in to a far shorter period.
And for me as a director, my biggest problem is cast.
Don’t get me wrong; the cast are fine and are trying hard. The problem with them is that they all have commitments: Day jobhs, families, individual studies… the list goes on. This makes it very hard for them to turn up each rehearsal. But they are amateurs and are doing it for fun. But when one member doesn’t make it to a rehearsal, then life gets so complicated for the rest of the cast as they are either acting against an empty space or they are acting against someone else that doesn’t necessarily understand the lines they are delivering.
But the joy of last night was that they suddenly turned it into a pantomime! It was funny! It had pace! It had the cast that were watching in the auditorium laughing!
Plus we’re now starting to purchase the kit we need for the set and I meet with the darling lady that is going to be my costume mistress.
People are even starting to talk about the next production.
It’s been a hard couple of weeks; but after last night I realised why I do it… It was fun!
Labels: Academy Players, Panto
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