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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Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Shaping up

Well, four weeks to go, and things are beginning to come together. Phew!

Last night was the first sequential run of scenes (the first four) and it does really help being able to grasp the proper flow of things.

There were pauses and stumbling of course, mostly due to (nearly!) all of us now running sans script, but I think the heart of the play is definitely beginning to beat. Even if it does need a bit of CPR now and then.. (I nearly said mouth to mouth, but there's already more than enough of that between Tony and me!)

Oh, and acting in a mask and with my hair loose is definitely a whole new level to tackle..
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