Hello there fellow Black Coffee Theatre
fans and supporters!
My name is Annie Davison and I am the
new and nervous work experience student helping – hopefully not
hindering – the work of Luke Adamson and Maria Crocker for a week
in the Alnwick Playhouse as they prepare for their performance of
“Found” on the 19th and 20th of September.
And I’m going to write a blog. For
the first time ever. Ah! How terribly exciting.
So! I arrived yesterday and after a few
frightening minutes of trying to open the only locked door of the
Playhouse and one nervous email later – “Maria, I have arrived
but I am locked out!” - I finally managed to navigate my way into
the building and introduce myself to Luke and Maria. By Jove they’re
nice people!
Anyway we got cracking down to some
admin work – Woo! I wrestled with a Macbook Pro in order to make a
flyer advertising both the arts and Luke and Maria’s performance,
and whilst my technologically impaired mind was occupied, Maria and
Luke tirelessly combatted the endless amounts of forms and funding
and insurance and train tickets and accommodation costs that a
theatre company must tackle on a regular basis. This independent
theatre company malarkey is much more complicated than I thought!
We then read through the script –
which was exciting and may I say, a great read. (and can I just take
this opportunity to shamelessly remind you of the performance dates –
the 19th and 20th of September 2013 at Alnwick
Playhouse starting at 7.30 PM- in a style that is absolutely in no
way at all like subliminal messaging. Remember the 19th
and 20th!) The read through was great though, we edited
areas of the script – I even contributed! Felt dead grown up, like.
And due to this I feel it was only
reasonable that today I should be given a task of great importance
which is a credit to my responsible skills. I was entrusted to go
down to Wilkinson’s and – wait for it – buy wallpaper and
bamboo skewers! I swear I was only distracted once on my journey and
this resulted in me filling out a double sided form on the importance
of tourism in Alnwick, but other than that little detour I completed
my task without delay!
No but in all seriousness these past
two days have been great fun and so useful as I have learnt so much
about drama schools through Maria and Luke’s personal stories and I
have really enjoyed the whole problem solving aspect to designing
sets, editing scripts, arguing with banks and learning about how to
run an independent theatre company - there is so much to it that I
never before considered! Of course my highlight of today was being
made “Content Creator” on the Black Coffee Theatre Facebook page
– Holy Moly! A real title! – and being able to blog about my
experiences so far. Tomorrow we are going to experiment with set
ideas which may or may not involve sand depending on whether Maria
gets her way – Luke’s not so sure. BUT THAT INFORMATION IS A
SECRET. So ssh.
Let’s see what the rest of my work
experience week holds. I’ll keep you posted. I haven’t yet made
Maria and Luke a cup of tea – a work experience staple. I’m
putting that down to the sweltering heat of the Playhouse, but I feel
like this task will be done by Friday!
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