(This is our first audience coming into the space. They were excellent.)
We opened on Saturday at the beautiful Beacon in Greenock and it was a triumph. The fish fished, the audience enjoyed, and dads were swapped.
It's been a crazy month. This was always going to be a technical show what with it being promenade but that's without counting on all the other things that are discovered in rehearsals. It's been a real privilege as well as challenge to find cunning ways to incorporate all the amazing ideas of Lu and the cast. It feels as if the whole process has gone in a flash and I'm still trying to work out the best bits.
And on a technical note...
I want to take a second to send a high-five to all the splendid folk that you don't see but without whom the show just wouldn't happen. Fi Fraser (production manager), David Sneddon (Company Stage Manager), Neil McLean (Technical Manager), Kylie Langford (Wardrobe Supervisor), Katy Lonsdale (Wardrobe Assistant) and Sarah Wilson (Technician) worked almost without pause last week to get us ready for the audience. A nicer bunch of smiley people who have little reason to smile you could hardly wish for. Writers, directors and actors get their names in the reviews but without this lot, we wouldn't be anywhere at all.
Goldfish is now on tour throughout May. Look out for us.
