So, here we stand, a long weekend in front of us, no rehearsal for a week, plenty to do, and not much to say that hasn't been said already. At the rehearsal tonight the first half to interval went smoothly and the second half swung like a rusty gate. In sporting parlance we're heading into the finals and it's mostly up to the players to do what they need to do - learn their lines and turn up on time!
I thought it would be an opportune time to mention some of my favourite parts of the script. The challenge when adapting the script was to keep some semblance of the rhythm in the more poetic parts of the script. I didn't manage to keep strictly to the famous Iambic Pentameter of Shakespeare but I got close - it's hard to fit Billabong and Eucalyptus into that particular rhythmic structure! 'Spartan dogs' have been changed to the local 'Dapto dogs' and 'palace' has been changed to 'The Castle' or 'homestead'. Other references to Australian popular culture have also been put in such as, a reference to Scott and Charlene from Neighbours, a reference to the colloquial saying - 'he could speak under water with his mouth full of marbles' as well as other colloquialisms like 'bugger' and 'oi!'
It was fun working on the script to make it more user friendly but there's just some stuff that just doesn't need touching like this amazing piece of alliteration from Peter Quince:
"Then, with a blade, with a bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast."
Say that three times quickly!
Well it's quite late now and I think I will digest and post again after the weekend ... Goodnight sweet people.
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