Now, I’m not sure how much I’ve talked about this prior to this post, but Some Girls is a partially devised piece we’re working on. We’re using the actual script to the play Some Girls but the rest of it goes through a devised process. 

Here’s a link for those of you not familiar with devised theatre: Click right here. 

Basically the designers come to rehearsals, the actors to production meetings. We play around with sets, costumes, props, light, and sound early on. 

Some Girls takes place in 4 different hotel rooms. Each scene is only between “Guy” and “Some Girl” (Sam, Tyler, Lindsay & Bobbi). 

Currently out set designer has been setting up flats on our paint deck. On the first day we did an 8 x 8 box with no exits or entrances with acting blocks inside for furniture and we closed two actors inside. We watched via the tops of ladders looking down into the space. It was really, really cool. Then we played around with the shape of the room a bit, put it in an L-shape so the audience couldn’t always see around the corners, couldn’t always see both actors. 

The next day, we put the room in an L-shape, put in practical   lighting, took out the top of the walls on each of the “ends” of the L and put a partial roof on top. The audience was seated right up against the window-like walls. The actors were so close to you that you could reach out and hug them, without moving too far. It was extremely intimate. We also had views were you could look through pin-holes in the flats and that was even more intimate. 

This show is going to be amazing. It’s the most interesting process I’ve ever worked in. I highly recommend this to other universities. 

More to follow.