Tom O is the guest blogger this week...
It’s been a rather busy few weeks at Yew Tree
for me, with a number of projects both finishing and beginning. Last Saturday
for instance, we wrapped the Detective Collective, a film done with Gold Company
which Bailey and I had been working together on. It’s a comedy about a group of
amateur detectives who try and solve a mystery surrounding the Hepworth
gallery. Its filled with equal parts self indulgence and brilliant story line,
created by Bailey and brought to life by the actors who’ve spent the last few
months working really hard. So a huge thank you to them. Hopefully, the
Detective Collective will be available for public viewing in the very near
future
We then move on to Monday and the delight
that is Sapphire Company. It was an exciting session as we began the process of
devising for our Christmas show Hansel and Gretel. Sapphire company has a very
different look to what it was when I first joined, and its been a pleasure to
watch this new set of individuals come together and produce great things. The
company has never been stronger and there are definitely some people who are
going to be blown away by the talent of this lot come December.
Touching briefly on the two sessions that I
volunteer at, we have started new plays with both Orange and Jade Company,
after a long period of them being able to play and create on their own.
Luckily, they have taken to the challenge with gusto and both are coming along
nicely. Its always interesting watching younger actors rehearse as so many of
them have this strange but wonderful ability to act without any restriction,
and its something that I think many of the older members of Yew Tree, myself
included, need to remember how to do. The ability to give everything to the
thing you’re doing with out limiting yourself in case other people seem to
judge. I’m very lucky I get to see it every week.
Thursday also brings with it the delight
that is Black company, and the project that is being concocted there at the
moment is extremely exciting. It’s a remembrance play for The Oaks mining
disaster that happened in 1866, and cost the lives of over 360 men. Yew tree
are performing at the lamp room theatre for the 150th anniversary,
and with a scene plan being decided upon on Thursday on the back of some
incredibly intense physical theatre work, I can already tell you that this is
not going to be one to miss. It’s a very talented bunch who are putting their
heart and soul into this, and the product is going to be special
Which brings us neatly round to yesterday,
where the time was mainly taken up with catching the film crew up on the new
show Lit on the Lawn, a rollercoaster through the history of the British novel.
We don’t mess about round here.
Ps: Good luck to anyone taking GCSE’s or A
levels. Do your best, stay kind, and stay as happy as you can. That’s the most
important thing.
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