What’s that, Rebecca? You don’t have enough on so you’re now Assistant Director on Masque Theatre’s infamous Summer Shakespeare for 2022?
Yup.
And delighted about it! Earlier this year I had to back out of lots of theatre things because life, and covid, got in the way. So it’s a wonderful thing to be working on some more Shakespeare, especially as it’s alongside the one and only Mr John Myhill. We’ve directed a Pantomime together before, so Richard III wont be all that different, will it? (Oh yes it will! – sorry/not sorry)
Fun fact: John and I, despite having worked on 8 productions together including this one, have never actually shared a scene IN PERSON (he played my dad in Pride & Prejudice, and then we got married at the end of Much Ado About Nothing (spoilers…) but those were both over Zoom…)
Tonight it’s the first proper rehearsal. I always get a little nervous ahead of a first rehearsal – god knows my first rehearsal for Duchess of Malfi was a freaking disaster thanks to nerves, and I barely remember the first rehearsal for Defying Gravity as I was such a mess – but I’m going in tonight excited to get to know all the new people who are joining the production, and of course see some old friends. I’m also running a movement warm up to kick things off, which is waaaaaay out of my comfort zone, so hopefully that’s all going to go swimmingly…
Plots have we laid…