Hello.

This week I got deep into development of my solo show on a shoestring, Dry Ice.

Thanks to the wonderous help of High Tide Genesis Lab (& amazing Associate Director: Natalie Ibu) I had the opportunity to meet and work with some gargantuan talents and I recommend anyone developing a piece of theatre to apply for the scheme (www.hightide.org.uk/warehouse/genesis-laboratory).

Drum roll, piano keys and plenty of cups of teas later and the crisp, confident composing talents of Anne Chmelewsky left me very excited at the huge effects small sounds can have on particular parts of the drama. Check out Anne's The Office: Opera and more here: www.annechmelewsky.com

Moving in circles brought me a whole new world of word play with the fantastic director Rachel Briscoe (currently at Oval House Theatre), who told me her top tips on getting to grips with your space and finding a place on stage to make your face look how your character is supposed to. Genius.

I'm not sure how set designers have such different minds to the rest of the world but I'm sure that they do. The way they can take a thought, feeling, concept or random comment and turn it into something commendably visually impressive is something I have huge admiration (read jealousy) of...as demonstrated by Amy Cook (www.amyjanecook.com) and Charlie Damigos .

I hope when I have a more significant shoestring I can aim for some of these stars to add more of their magic to my show.

Excitingly, I will also be able to take on a further stage of development by meeting with various top talents in New York as part of the OVNV TS Eliot Exchange!!! The whole trip is just too exciting to write about this late at night.

So next stage: PR and Marketing. I've got my 1000 flyers my A4 posters (see above and thanks to Zia Ahmed and Rumi Begum: www.in-seeing.blogspot.com) and my A3 monsters and I will become a public nuisance very soon. I need to find some fun ways to get the word out, for End of the Line we left tickets on the tube. I'm not sure that leaving them in stripclubs will have the same effect. Let me know if you'd like to get involved and the results on the next blog.

Tickets for Dry Ice here:

http://www.ambassadortickets.com/2339/681/Wimbledon/Wimbledon-Studio/Dry-Ice-Tickets

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