Tuesday, 16 March 2010

IN HIS IMAGE: The End

It's all over.

What a fantastic run. Every night was a success, with the audience in stitches. The set looked amazing and the costumes were brilliant. After all the hard work, we spent one last night together drinking in a basement bar. Until next time...

A huge congratulations to the team:

Cast

Tahirah Sharif - Tanya
Chris Sheridan - Sharkey
James Haymer - Merv
Jim Tanner - Sam
Stephanie-Jane de Whalley - Chantelle
Elizabeth Gaubert - Millie
Bryony Reiss - Alex
Jonnie Riordan - Stef
Dritan Kastrati - Darren
Selom Awadzi - Lawrence
Chinelo Obibuaku - Natalie
Biba Osman - Shaniqua
Supraneeti Verenya - Melissa

Creatives

Writer - Rosa Connor
Director - Kelly Wilkinson
Movement Director - Imogen Knight
Set Designer - Cate Blanchard
Costume Designer - Phoebe Allies
Lighting Designer - Carmen Martinez
Sound Designer - Ed Davis
Assistant Director - Lisa Woynarski

CSM - Steve Hubbard
DSM - Anna Hughes
Technician - Cressy Klaces
Lighting Assistant - Daniel Bodie

Assistant Producer - Emily Cooper
Assistant Producer - Stephanie Potter

Thank you to Kelly Wilkinson and the Hampstead Theatre Creative Learning department for the opportunity to meet so many talented and passionate people.

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Performance Week

The time has come!

The set is complete, the costumes are made, the programme is printed... After an intense, exhausting and above all enjoyable rehearsal period, IN HIS IMAGE by Rosa Connor will be performed in full for the first time tomorrow evening.

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Monday, 1 March 2010

Rehearsal Room Notes: Week 6

This was the first week that we had the stage set up in the round. The cast and crew were all very excited to finally see how the space was going to work. It also gave our set designer Cate Blanchard an opportunity to physically realise her ideas. For the cast it was a good to see the size of the space and also how they were now going to be dealing with audience on all sides. Most of the cast of Scene Four began work staying inside the Michael Frayn space with Kelly, whilst the rest went to work on Scene One and character development with Lisa.

Throughout the rehearsal, members of the cast were taken aside by Phoebe, our costume designer, to go over and try on possible outfits for the play. Towards the end the cast worked on Scene Nine, and it was great to see them really enjoying taking on their roles for this dramatic and conflicting part of the play.

With a music video to shoot, a programme to make and production and technical week to get through before the opening night, Heat&Light 18-25 are BUSY!