Rehearsal Blog - Week 2 - Birmingham
Week 2, tough but rewarding. The Idiot rehearsal room (which has been relocated from Brixton to Birmingham) is all about the pursuit of fun and intrigue. If we’re not enjoying what we’re creating, or interested in it, why should the audience be? But that said, we work hard for those ingredients. We’re not in Kansas anymore, we’re in Birmingham. And it takes dedication to put on a show.
Rehearsal Blog - Week 1 - Brixton
As I sit here in bed, mulling over the events of the first week’s rehearsals, naked as the day I was born, it occurs to me that this is not only the most unique and unusual play I’ve ever been involved with but if I were in the audience, I think it would be the most unique and unusual play I’d ever seen too.
So far, “Never Try This at Home” is a mixture of improvisation, wigs, live music, slow motion, nostalgia, sexism and biting satire. I say so far because we’re only at the beginning of a devising process and there are 3 more radical weeks to go. We’re not looking for inspiration from thin air though. Over the past 2 years there have been several research and development weeks - time for Told by an Idiot theatre company to explore ideas, develop the language of the play and fail without consequence.
Dudley Rees is an actor and director living in London. This blog is his online scrapbook, a place to explore the big questions of theatre - note down the good times and complain about the terrible, slow, agonising times.
Some entries will be more technical than others but hopefully all will be reasonably entertaining. At least as entertaining as the film, "Chappie".