Hello and Welcome to the “Blast from the Cast!” section of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre 60th summer season blog! Here I will be trying (‘trying’ being the operative word!) to give you my account of how things are going in the lovey-darling-thespy end of the building. As rehearsals continue and the opening night of My Fair Lady looms ever closer I’ll be letting you know how calm, collected and perfectly rehearsed we all are. Of course I won’t be relaying the tales of how stressed, overworked, malnourished, exhausted, underpaid, broken, anxious and perplexed we are, or at least, I’m sure at some point I will be!
You join us (or possibly we join you?!) a little late in proceedings, we’re already two and half weeks into the rehearsals and to be honest it’s all going quite well! For those of you who know how the rehearsal process at PFT works you will understand why this is a comfort. For those of you who don’t, here’s a brief outline: We generally have eight weeks to fully rehearse the first four shows, this doesn’t mean two block weeks for each show, no, no! We have an entree of My Fair Lady, then tuck into See How They Run, moving swiftly onto a side of Trelawney of the Wells and topping it all off with a helping of Henceforward, all devoured within the first two and a half weeks. This is then mashed together in a veritable Eton mess of a rehearsal schedule for the remaining five and a half weeks. Somehow at the end of this feast of work, we put them on the stage for you good people to (hopefully!) enjoy.
Anyway, enough of these silly, food-based analogies, its dinner break. I’ll be in touch soon!
S.B x
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