So. Rehearsals are upon us! I have been so excited to have been offered the job, and to be honest I am quite relieved I get to play an old woman rather than an elf. I'm not sure I'd be able to do all the bouncing and jumping and puppeteering that the elves are going to have to do.
But we have a great team, after the first read through we
are all very happy about the script and I think we will be able to make
something really magical.
Sarah Brigham is one of the most amazing people I have ever worked with, I think she is a bit of an elf herself: it's amazing how much work she manages to cram into a day. Apart from the read through, we looked at some puppets made by John Barber, and we tried out bits and bobs on the floor. Sarah made us build our own puppet, I can tell you that arts and crafts have never been my forte, and my puppet looked like a cross between a pig, a spaceship and some VERY crumpled unidentified heap of paper. After rehearsals we went for a curry and I retired early because I simply HAD to finish part 3 of The Hunger Games. Bit addictive.
Day 2 was fabulous too, with some nice interaction between me and Adrian (who plays the old man) exploring our relationship and then putting some of the script on its feet. Sarah is in there straight away, telling us off in the nicest possible way for making the opening far too tragic. It should all be light and fun, we were being soooo earnest with those great Mike Kenny lines. We had a talk about the tour- Unicorn and take off festival will be fab, and it will be the third time for me that I perform at the Rose Theatre in Ormskirk, and then I discovered that my costume has been used in the olympics opening ceremony. Very very cool!!
Now we have a few months before we really get going, I cannot wait. I'm going back to home country Belgium for a bit, to do various things including another play and i have put a big circle in my diary over October the 8th. See you all in Eastleigh!
PS oh yes, so here's a funny thing about my name: I'm Rose officially, but everybody has to call me Marieke. it's a weird Dutch tradition which confuses everybody including myself!
Sarah Brigham is one of the most amazing people I have ever worked with, I think she is a bit of an elf herself: it's amazing how much work she manages to cram into a day. Apart from the read through, we looked at some puppets made by John Barber, and we tried out bits and bobs on the floor. Sarah made us build our own puppet, I can tell you that arts and crafts have never been my forte, and my puppet looked like a cross between a pig, a spaceship and some VERY crumpled unidentified heap of paper. After rehearsals we went for a curry and I retired early because I simply HAD to finish part 3 of The Hunger Games. Bit addictive.
Day 2 was fabulous too, with some nice interaction between me and Adrian (who plays the old man) exploring our relationship and then putting some of the script on its feet. Sarah is in there straight away, telling us off in the nicest possible way for making the opening far too tragic. It should all be light and fun, we were being soooo earnest with those great Mike Kenny lines. We had a talk about the tour- Unicorn and take off festival will be fab, and it will be the third time for me that I perform at the Rose Theatre in Ormskirk, and then I discovered that my costume has been used in the olympics opening ceremony. Very very cool!!
Now we have a few months before we really get going, I cannot wait. I'm going back to home country Belgium for a bit, to do various things including another play and i have put a big circle in my diary over October the 8th. See you all in Eastleigh!
PS oh yes, so here's a funny thing about my name: I'm Rose officially, but everybody has to call me Marieke. it's a weird Dutch tradition which confuses everybody including myself!
Marieke Van Hoof
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