Writing from the back of the auditorium at the Torch, where director Mladen Materic and the cast of Mundo Paralelo are working through some key moments of the show before starting cue-to-cue tech tomorrow.  I drove down from Aberystwyth this morning (for those of you who know about my lack of driving skills, I should mention that I managed not to tip off the road into the sea at any point, and indeed spent a while stuck behind a caravan cursing just like a proper motorist...) I head back to Aberystwyth later today for a final tech run of Outdoors.  I think in all the madness of our first year this is the first time we've actually managed to have two shows in tech at the same time. 

 

Outdoors is very hard to describe - an audio tour? a choir rehearsal? a mathematical feat?  it's a dream-like experience - doubling a real tour round Aberystwyth with a memory-laden walk taken by a choir member at a different point in time.  I've found the tech runs moving and sometimes surreal, and, like all of Rimini's work, deceptively simple until you actually think about what happened!

 

Meanwhile it's the opposite experience in Milford Haven, wher No Fit State Circus - experts in the outdoors world of the big top come inside the theatre space.  The Torch theatre have been hugely generous with this project - giving the company a whole month of almost exclusive access to their main theatre space,  allowing for real experiment with the possibilities for circus in a theatre auditorium.  By spending in-depth time in the space, the company have discovered all sort of things, from how to juggle into trap doors to the possibilities of trapeze in the orchestra pit!

 

First performance of Outdoors NTW11 is tomorrow, Friday 25, after which it shows most Tuesdays for a year. Mundo Paralelo NTW12 opens for preview on Thursday March 3.

 

 

 

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Comment by National Theatre Wales on February 24, 2011 at 12:27
Indeed Marc.  But if by some chance it does happen, I hope you won't be driving!!
Comment by Marc Rees on February 24, 2011 at 7:05
Imagine the vocal obscenities if you were stuck behind an aeroplane fuselage!
As if that would ever happen!

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