TICKETS NOW ON SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tickets are for sale on Skiddle, please find links to the box office for each performance below!


Sunday 14th September                   6pm                House Liverpool


Wednesday 17th September             9pm                The Bluecoat
                                                                              

Saturday 20th September                  9pm                81 Renshaw St
                                                                             
                                   
Thursday 25th September                 2pm               Treasure House, World Museum Liverpool
                                                                          

Saturday 27th September                  3pm               Treasure House, World Museum Liverpool
                                                                          

We are pleased to finally be able to announce our performances and venues during the festival.


Sunday 14th September                   6pm                House Liverpool


Wednesday 17th September             9pm                The Bluecoat
                                                                              

Saturday 20th September                  9pm                81 Renshaw St
                                                                             
                                   
Thursday 25th September                 2pm               Treasure House, World Museum Liverpool
                                                                          

Saturday 27th September                  3pm               Treasure House, World Museum Liverpool
                                                                          

We will let you know as soon as tickets go on sale.

Exciting times!


TOM
From the Mill

 

Here is the first glimpse of our poster. Many thanks to Green Mill Creative for their work on this. 

 

Up close and personal

After kicking off last week with some full cast rehearsals, this week we stripped back and started to focus on the relationships between the individual characters.

Last night, Luke Onur and I wanted to really get to grips with the relationship between Nathan and his publisher. Since day one, Onur has had us doing exercises and games that really get us to listen to each other, and hear what other people are saying. The purpose of this is to make what we are doing believable, natural. It's not acting; we are actually there, in the moment, responding to what the other person is saying. Yesterday, Onur took this one step further and we kicked off the rehearsal by playing some warm-up games that really made Luke and I focus on each other, watch each other, take in all the detail. Once again, the purpose of this is to encourage us to do exactly this while we are on stage - watch what the other person is doing and what their body language is saying about them, their mood, how they are feeling. We need to do this in order to make our characters genuine. 

The focus of last night was for us to really start to understand and know our characters in depth. There is no right or wrong way of how to say a certain line, or react to something someone else has said. We just need to understand WHY we are saying it that way, or WHY we are reacting in that fashion. And to do this we need to get to know not only our character, but also the relationship he/she has with the other characters in the play. It's all about exploring. Making mistakes. Working out what doesn't work is just as important as working out what does work.

The script is the most useful tool to really understand our characters. It is the starting point beyond which we must explore. Last night, Luke and I did some improvising around the script, in order to understand what might make our characters say some of the things we do, helping us to start to grasp how we are feeling at certain points in the show. It really helped us to break the unnatural nature that so often comes with acting, and to really become our characters.

It was a really intense rehearsal, leaving us both a lot to think about before Saturday's rehearsal.

Until Saturday,

Jenny :)

Rehearsals

Day two of rehearsals and the real work can begin! Armed with our scripts, pencils and just a few nerves, we go back into the rehearsal room, this time at LIPA.



To be able to seal ourselves away, lock out the world and spend a whole day working together on new work is a tremendous privilege and one that I am enjoying so very much.

The work started with the script. We had to forget that this piece had ever been performed and begin completely again, with a blank canvas.  We broke the script apart, working and playing with the sections, trying out things, seeing what worked and what didn't work.

We don't know what the finished product will look like, how our characters with end up behaving but are loving every minute of finding that out.



We will keep you posted!


TOM

From the Mill

And so it begins....

Mid-week seems like an odd time to start new beginnings but here I was, standing outside the Seven Oaks pub ready for my first rehearsal. Allow me to properly introduce myself I’m John and this was going to be my first rehearsal as Lee in From The Mill Theatre Company’s production of Life’s Witness which is going to be part of Liverpool’s Page To Stage festival.

I wasn’t given much time to think before I was ushered in by Jennifer ready for the first rehearsal. As an actor the first rehearsal can sometimes be the scariest thing, meeting a group of new people for the first time and hoping you don’t make them regret hiring you is something that constantly runs through your mind, well, not this time. From the second I walked into the room everything went brilliantly. Onur Orkut, our director, dove right in giving us engaging and surprisingly difficult warm up exercises (my hand foot co-ordination isn't the best) focusing on our need to not only respond but listen to what is going on around us.

After a quick stop for a cheeky lime and soda we got down to having our first read through of the script. It was exciting to hear all these voices get lifted off the page and made me fall in love with this script even more. It has made me even more excited to be involved in this piece of work and so glad to be working with such an amazingly talented group of people.

Saturday is our next rehearsal so keep your eyes peeled for another blog building following our journey from Page to Stage :D

Until next time,

John, out :D