I’m not sure there’s anything I wouldn’t do for this.
25
Jun 10
A tasty bit for your eyes and ears
Here’s a teaser. Turn up your speakers!
We have music written for the show by Emily Irvine and Joseph Littlefield, which you can hear throughout the trailer.
13
Jun 10
Sunday afternoon
Long rehearsal yesterday – 14 straight hours with Zoe. Not sick of each other yet. Having a lovely Sunday off, reading the bad Sunday paper, drinking bad coffee, watching bad TV. Have been thinking about the three-year gap that would have meant not being able to produce Under Milk Wood, thanks to the Free Trade Agreement in 2005. Had it been signed in 2002, we wouldn’t have been able to experiment with Dylan Thomas’ writing until 2023 without raising considerably more funds for royalties payable to an estate.
08
May 10
Rehearsing in Sidetrack and bullet point update
Ah, first day of rehearsing in the theatre over. Remarkable early mark. Will post the photos we took for the poster soon. Emily Irvine has been whipping up tunes for the new incarnations of Thomas’ songs. Little projections being made of little men walking all over Zoe. Lamps between legs. Scaling ladders and scrambling in straight-jackets.
28
Apr 10
Learning lines
So last week, Zoe came up to the mountains house to learn lines for three days straight. After waking up a couple of times, both of us dreaming of nothing but milk wood words, she’s pretty much got it down.
Down at Mini Ha Ha:
22
Apr 10
Polly scrubs the floor
The Reverend Eli Jenkins, busy on his morning calls, stops outside the Welfare Hall to hear Polly Garter as she scrubs the floors for the Mothers’ Union Dance to-night.
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22
Apr 10
Nogood Boyo in the Dinghy
Fishermen grumble to their nets. Nogood Boyo goes out in the dinghy _Zanzibar_, ships the oars, drifts slowly in the dab-filled bay, and, lying on his back in the unbaled water, among crabs’ legs and tangled lines, looks up at the spring sky.
NOGOOD BOYO (Softly, lazily)
I don’t know who’s up there and I don’t care.
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12
Mar 10
The first renovation day, getting rid of all the yellow
Yellow, carpet, yellow walls, yellow ceilings, yellow cabinets, yellow windows.
