The time is nearing to our second work in progress… Tomorrow in fact!
Do I feel ready? Yes…no… I really don’t know.
I think this is a great time in our process to show it to a selected audience due to the fact that we have been working so long on making it ‘right’ that I am not too sure if we know what right is anymore… We know how we want the scene to feel and the way we want the audience to connect in their own way but we have been spending hours that we no longer know if it is achieving what we want it to achieve. I believe showing it to an audience allows us to get some fresh eyes onto our material.
I feel that because it is a devised piece rather than scripted it is difficult to know if something truly works with an audience until we show it to one. We didn’t want to wait until the performance date it self so now is a good time as it leaves us with just under a month to develop and improve on the feedback we will be given.
As a company we know what still need the greatest improvements but hopefully this work in progress will pick up on aspects that we our selves had not thought of yet. It could be the slightest thing that is not right but this could change the whole feel of the scene. We are lucky enough for this to be our second work in progress so we can see how far our piece has come. We have come so far but know we still have so far left to go.
I feel so far this has been a journey that none of us expected, it has been fun, creative yet challenging. We are bonding more as a company that it is starting to feel like one, we have come so far from when we first formed. We are more comfortable around each other and parts of ourselves are starting to come out, showing hidden talents along the way.
We really are nine different people coming together to create one unique show.