Accepted

Well, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime has been accepted as Ottershaw Players' May 2008 production at the Rhoda McGaw theatre. Which is nice.

And lucky, as it means that this little blog will continue to exist!

Quite a bit of pre-production work then to look at over the next couple of months. I need to prepare a budget and design some artwork for the posters.

I will also make an early approach to our design team to think of imaginitive ways of avoiding the box set. I always think that a box set has to be done superlatively well to look good. An open set can look more stylish, more easily and for less money. I was particularly struck by some pictures we saw of the set for The Big House at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, recently. Can't find any good ones online, but they conveyed a rather grand salon-type room with free-standing windows and doorways and used scrims behind these to project birch trees and leaf gobos. Very effective.

I've approached a potential stage manager and I'm waiting for their answer. Fingers crossed, as a good SM makes all the difference between an average and a great show.