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.

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Thursday, 20 March 2008

Well I spent most of Tuesday's rehearsal rolling on the floor with Vicky (poor girl). My character basically tries to get off with all the women in the play, succeeds with a couple has a darned good attempt with Florinda, Vicky's character. You have to excuse him tho', he was very drunk at the time....

We're beginning to get the flavour of this production (bawdy and over the top) and a feel for the characters too (ditto). We're getting through the blocking of the scenes at a breakneck pace - most of them are fairly short - and we've covered nearly half. I suspect Alison is saving the longer more complicated ones until last.

We have a set plan now (which is different from the one we had last week) and hopefully it will look very pretty. We've got another rehearsal tonight, along with our first production meeting. I'll report back on how it goes.

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