Blogging The Rover: The Newbie

The Company is an amateur theatre group with members across Sheffield and South Yorkshire. We have been established for over a decade and have developed a reputation for high quality theatre worthy of the professional stage. We perform three plays a year at The University of Sheffield's Drama Studio, a renowned intimate theatre venue. Our members are encouraged to give creative input at all stages of production including script writing, set design, stage management, directing and acting. Our next production is Aphra Behn's The Rover which will be in the Drama Studio from Wednesday June 18th until Saturday June 21st and at the Dore festival Wednesday July 9th.

This blog will contain the thoughts and feelings of those members of The Company putting together this production of The Rover.

Who is blogging here? John is our leading man playing Willmore, the eponymous 'Rover' he is also managing the production, ensuring that all the disparate creative and technical strands come together to produce a whole play. Cassandra is new to on stage work with The Company having previously been part of the epic crew for "Noises Off". Alison is the director and has also done some of the adaption work to ensure the audience can understand what is going on and that the dirty jokes really shine though. Tony is playing Ned Blunt and will be battling with being typecast as a bumbling idiot and comedy costuming.

Wednesday, 19 March 2008

The Newbie

Hi,
First play with The Company and three rehearsals in I'm already having a great time. Everyone is really nice and I've been made to feel so welcome (thanks guys!).
Last night's rehearsal was good fun, although on a whim, I may have agreed to expose myself onstage! (Told my boyfriend, he was quite worried!) I'd printed off my script with such joy and sat down eagerly with a highlighter only to find:

[undresses]

Next to my lines! In the first scene! What a debut!
However, I think there will be underskirts involved so I think I'll be ok.
No-one said acting would be easy....
Amy

2 comments:

Tony said...: Hey, how do you think *I* feel ;-); 19 March 2008 at 17:57
Amy Gunn said...: Fair point...; 21 March 2008 at 11:21