Rehearsal Week: Unfamiliar Accents

This week rehearsals have been in full swing. Accents have graced lips leaving voices unrecognisable. Intonation has been tweaked and tweaked again. Lines have been inserted and deleted, tentatively trying to hear the script through the ears of the audience. Technical meetings are underway and lists of sound effects are being rapidly typed out and sourced ahead of next week when recording will begin. 

Having once thought that choosing a play that everyone would agree on was the biggest challenge we would ever face, we are now met with the enormous task of recording and editing it all, to create something resembling our expectations. Moreover, all communication regarding this must be made through video calls, and when bad wifi interferes, this can be somewhat tricky. Before the real recording begins, however, we must first do various tests to check that our individual recording environments produce a suitable sound. For this, we must all create our own 'recording studios'. Contrary to the implications of this term, they will not be specialised rooms sound-checked by professional acousticians and kitted out with all the necessary equipment, but will rather consist of a tent constructed from our own duvets. 

Speak nothing of the technical difficulties; to be able to navigate Mrs Machin's meticulous timetable is a skill in itself, and appearing at rehearsals on time is one that many of us have not yet mastered. Check in with us next week for an update on our progress and some exclusive photos of our makeshift recording studios.