:(

i just thought i'd randomly come here on the off chance that someone would put something really interesting on here to read...but nah...
...is it just me or does everyone REALLY miss 'The Good Person Of Szechwan'?!
maybe i'm just sad then, or have too much time at home now to write this stoopidness on blogs?!
Miss EVERYONE, hope to see you soon. Lau x

Some More Photo Stuff

Photoshoot went well. Smoke. Ladders and Long-held poses. At the end I took a couple of pictures of people whose costumes we hadn't really worked on; they weren't here yesterday. Mikey, Rhiannon and Laura - and Leah's full 'Geisha' make up. In fact the pictures show her in her 'distressed' make-up, after the shoot. I was madly rubbing it off with my fingers. I actually think something like this would be great for Mrs Mi Tzu.... a kind of ruined face. Maybe once she was someone... a lady even .... but she's fallen on hard times...

We liked Mikey's Benny Hill style outfit and, though he had a hammer for the shoot, we think the character might benefit from a mallet. Can you see the pencil tucked behind his ear? We liked that touch.

Laura was scary. Apart from the fact she had her eyelashes sticking through the eye-hole of the mask, we felt spooked most of the time. Some of us even wanted to cut her eyelashes off. But when Shui Ta comes in in the second scene, you can see how scary it could appear to the scroungers as they wake from sleep.

Fashion Parade

OK. Right.

We had a very good time with the Fashion Parade today. As you can see.

But it took some time. Longer than you'd think. So, those of you who did not come today, please come as early as you possibly can tomorrow, Friday. It's not just a question of putting on the first thing that you find. There's a lot of trial and error involved, mixing and matching.







We then put together a couple of 'testers' that I will email to Steve Blunt tonight, so we can all hit the ground running tomorrow at 2.00 and finish much quicker that we would do from a standing start.

A couple more umbrellas might not go amiss, by the way, and any pairs of hobnail boots would be good too.

Sleep tight. Abstinence. Don't let the bugs bite.

Well, I've got MY Cossie...

Paid a brief visit to the costume cupboard today and have got myself a fetching little number. See picture above. Well hard. Hope you're all getting geared up for the fashion parade and shoot tomorrow and Friday. There will be prizes, of course, for the best outfits in various categories.

FAO Rhiannon and Andrea

Hey guys!

Hope you are having an awesome week!
Just been speaking to Steve about my costume for Shui Ta for the photo shoot and he suggested I wear a bowler hat - which is a great idea.
However...! I do not have the privilege of owning my own bowler hat, so wondered if any of you beautiful people happen to have a spare bowler hat kicking about your homes?!
Also wondered if you have any ideas on this because a bowler hat makes an appearance later on in the play...

So if you guys, or anyone else in the cast, has a bowler hat I can use for the photo shoot lemme know, or leave a message on the blog.

Thankyou so much!
See you Friday... :) Laura

Model Box Meeting

I knocked up a model box for a meeting in MG1.36 at 12.00 today, Friday. Those present: Zi, Tom, Jon, Rob and Steve. It lasted about 40 mins. And much was discussed. Perhaps Zi or Tom could do a little report of the main things we discussed and would be working on. I'd just earlier done a few pix of the model box. Here is one to show the rough idea. More details later. To add to this post, either of you, go to the 'dashboard and click on the name, ShenTe at Jackson's lane etc and you get a list of the posts. Then you click edit - and you can add stuff.

Have a nice weekend everyone...

PHOTO-SHOOT CASTING

OK, guys, I've made an executive decision. Nothing to do with the casting for the show itself, but I'm going to give you all 'parts' to play in the photo-shoot.

Shen Te/Geisha Girl: Leah
Sun/Pilot: Tomasz
Young Prostitute: Zihannah
Mrs Shin - Rhiannon
Shui Ta/Masked Man: Laura Whale
Mi Tzu/Grasping Landlady: Tamara
Carpenter/Drunk: Mike
Mr Shu Fu/Demon Barber: Sile
Limping Man: Huseyin
Wang the Waterman: Andrea
Policeman: Kharis if available.

I want you to go along to the costume cupboard (I had a look in there today), raid your own wardrobes and beg steal and borrow. Kharis and Tamara are currently negotiating the day of the shoot next week so talk to them and alert them NOW about any problems you have with availability.

I want you to use your imaginations and HAVE FUN!!! But remember, we're hoping to model it on the Mamaloucos Image...
Leah will hopefully have a suggestion of kimono - ideally in white or red with a white geisha face. I'd also like some bare flesh, probably from Sun, the Limping Man and maybe the Prostitute.

Think European - apart from Shen Te - with principally blacks and dark greys, tatty suits, hobnail boots, ripped white shirts. Almost like a Threepenny Szechuan. Raggedy. Tramps. Battered top hats. Inside out umbrellas, holes in their socks... etc etc RAIN. If there is colour it might be in little splashes. A wilted flower in someone's buttonhole. Reference to the play in there. I noticed, for example, that there's a dolly in the props/costume cupboard. I'd definitely like Leah to be cradling that...

I have a police hat... We'll need something like, maybe, a big belted overcoat for the policeman...

We need at least five (probably broken) umbrellas.

We will need some cigars. Cigarettes. A smoke machine I hope from Jon...

So, get started.