Finally finished with Amahl and the Night Visitors, the show that has been absorbing my and Nick's free time for the last couple of months, largely in driving to Oxfordshire and back. It's his third run as Melchior with this company, so he was pretty blase about the whole thing, but Amahl and I (as the Mother) were brand new to the piece. Our ( Read more... )

So the run for my cast finished with the matinee on Saturday afternoon - slight anticlimax since it was probably the least well attended performance. We went to the cast party in the evening, with most people exhausted and partly covered in paint from the evening show, but with plenty of energy left for gossiping.

( Cut for waffle about the opera )

Run of Die Fledermaus in Guildford last week (Wednesday to Sat, 5 performances in total counting the Saturday matinee) went very well on the whole, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves. The tech on Sunday was the first rehearsal in the theatre itself, which wasn't ideal: the stage was shallower than we expected which led to traffic problems ( Read more... )