Making Shows
What can you expect from our newsletter for performers and crew?
Making Shows is for the people on stage and behind it: performers, directors, designers, crew. The people who've got a day job, a life, and somehow also ten scenes to block, costumes to alter overnight, and a rehearsal room to hold together when you've lost a cast member with only two weeks to go.
Every episode, article and resource comes from real experience, not theory. Audition craft from both sides of the table. Rehearsal techniques that respect the two hours you've actually got. Staging tricks for a budget that wouldn't cover lunch at Nando's. Honest accounts of what to do when it all goes sideways, because eventually, it does. How you get things back on track, that's what we like to share.
Everything comes from people who are in the trenches of the rehearsal room too, dealing with the same kinds of difficult cast member and the same uncertainties about the state of the lighting rig.
It's free. Each episode is short enough for the commute, and they might just save you from learning the hard way what someone else already had to work out.