So the auditions were nailed. Excellent. Funniest thing... the nerves at an audition pale in comparision to those leading up to your first spoken line of your first rehearsal (totally idiotic I know, especially when I've clattered across that stage GAJILLIONS of times over the last couple of decades) True story though, my knees were knocking louder than the creaking of the boards. What a wuss!
So... who am I... well you fine folk can call me Eedz... I'm gonna attempt to give you a fly on the wall free perv into our creative world behind the scenes of Titirangi Theatre's production of "The Women". Top Secret of course... can't give too much away darlings...
Let's fast-forward the early stages of our very short rehearsal period where 'food miming' and 'pretend smoking' and 'tripping over non-existant furniture' rituals reign supreme. All the while holding on to the security blankie of your script for dear life... Those bits, the funny fumbly first few weeks are where you are allowed to be a gumby, giggle and drop character because you accidentally threw the 'F-Bomb' into a line while drawing a blank and wanted to cover up your embarrassment by getting a cheap laugh from your cast and crew mates. Sooo self-indulgent but so much fun...and thus, the bonding process begins :-)
You know what I really love about this play, and this cast 'n' crew of talent? Its that the characters we are all morphing into are so... 'surreal' that's its such a joy to smile and laugh and joke with the real peeps behind those "b*tches 'n' ho's" off the stage! :-) (Now please don't be offended... the director said we could say that - SHE DID TOO!). And these chicks we are portraying would SOO be called that if they appeared on Jeremy Kyle or Jerry Springer. Oh it is SCREAMING I tell you!!
Kudos to our freakin awesome Director, Janelle... she has to put up with our shenanagans... smack us around, shut us up, get us in shape, feeding us the vision, wrangling the troops around coughs, colds, hangovers, hangunders, divas and an array of obsticals which would have had a lesser person slamming doors and girlie running to the loony bin or drowning in Purple Goannas. All with the help of her trusty sidekick "The BFG" they are an amazing team to be reckonded with! BFG has been the only constant male presence at rehearsals... imagine having to breathe in all that oestrogen three times a week? G came on board fully prepped, trained for 6 months in hormone-to-hair-pulling combat and has settled into his producer role without the batting of an eyelash. Or maybe it was just his cunning ploy of 4 bags of lollies and 2 packs of choccy bickies? Hmmm...
We have the "J-J-T's" on board too... Janet, Jane and Trish. Jane tells us when we aint said it right, Janet is the goddess of "let there be light". Trish is the multi-tasking queen... production assistance and actress supreme.
Why poetry all of a sudden? Its coz I'm a chick and I can if I want to...so there.
Anyhoo... so here we all are, hard at rehearsal, negotiating our way around a card game that lost its trendyness when the Ark sank, catwalking around duct-tape furniture and imaginary Martini's dahhhhling and trying to avoid eating the candle cupcakes which LOOK SO REALLLL!!! When some amazingly talented set of wise-asses build an entire multi-story New York apartment on our stage! Oooh-err! THEN...all of a sudden it was.."heels on, books down, here's a REAL HANDBAG to use!" Crumbs! Its all a bit too much really... this funny aristocratic hauty world we are messing around with is evolving rapidly before our eyes... and its soo freakin EXCITING!
Ooops... I think I hear someone coming so I better gap it... until next time darlings... hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.......JUST BLOG IT!!!
Eedz
XOX
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