Ros and Guil Are Rehearsing in Ste Maxime

Dear reader,

Now is finally the time to share with you some behind-the-stage scenes of our long weekend in Ste Maxime, South of France. Thanks to Nadia's family, we were lucky enough to be able to go rehearse in a fabulous villa for a whole prolonged weekend of "Ros and Guil". 

Even though the sun and sea were very tempting, we managed to work for very reasonable hours and to get the play going. To be honest, I was never that ready that close to a production. That doesn't mean I'm not stressed out by it all (having horrible nightmares, but that's another story), but it means that I'm happy we got pretty much where we wanted which this production.

We still had to make hard choices this weekend: because we are time-limited in this production, we needed to cut out whole chunks of the play (at night, I still hear Act 3 being butchered). If you ever read this play, you'll be able to realize how difficult it is to cut: some parts can be left out pretty smoothly, but because there are so many repetitions and self-references in the play, you cannot cut some things without getting some other things incomprehensible. All in all, I think we made a good job of it. Or at least I hope so. The absurdness of the play will help justify some choices in any case.

And now without further ado, let me share with you some key moments of our rehearsals.

Ros and Guil trying to fall asleep and obviously failing

Our dear mascot, Pol

Ros and Guil are having tea, trying to delve into Hamlet's issues

Hamlet the crazy plotter

Ros and Guil are on a boat

Our production involves part of dancing and puppetry miming

Guil sits. Ros stands. They have apparently been doing this for some time.

A souvenir polaroid of our great weekend

Hoping these sneak peaks will make you want to come to see our production, I'll leave you, dear reader, with the exciting following note: the play is in less than a week!!!

And we still have so many things to do! Find props, spread flyers around town, making sure to get our lines right and figuring out a way to make this production hold in 1h15, as well as doing programmes... So I'm off back to work now!

Best,

Guil