Curry and Costumes

As the week draws to  a close the servant team will only have 2 full weeks of rehearsal before production week. EEK. Time is flying by at a terrifying pace.

Cast warm up games.

Our plans for set and costume are getting underway. Lucy and Ben are off to the West Yorkshire Playhouse wardrobe tomorrow to check out their array of 18th century gear. Our set designs are completed, and we are all off and about next week sourcing props.

This week of rehearsals has been highly successful  as we mentioned in our last blog post. bits are really starting to come together, with the cast off script for act one. Lets hope the act two and act three run throughs next week go as smoothly.

Our first cast social was also this week, which saw the whole cast and directing team trouping down to Akbar's on Eastgate. In a desperate and shameful display of male bravado, every male member of the cast undertook the chef’s challenge as did our producer Sammy who would shame many of the boys who could simply not compete with her. The chef’s challenge consisted of gluttonous amounts of rice, chicken and lamb keema and one of Akbar’s famously over-sized naan breads. This combination of carbs and spice proved too much for Harry or Oli to complete but Ben, Connor, Callum, Jack and Sammy all managed to see off the challenge. Just for good measure, the accompanying chilli was seen off too and the reactions from Ben and Jack upon discovering quite how hot those chillies were, were almost as hilarious as the play itself.