I told Iggy that I was planning to write part of my multiple smuggling
epic to be staged next summer, for the bandstand - turning it into
a stage. There was no one else about so we acted out a brief improvised
scene for an imaginary audience, standing on the stage where we found,
of course, the acoustics were marvelous. (Guess who was a smuggler
and who had to be the heroic Customs Officer.)
Iggy had a great idea: he said, I know where there's a theatre, Daddy.
Follow me." And he lead me over to that tumble down structure
with all the graffitti that backs on to the bowling club's office/changing
room. Interesting thing is that I have often thought this would make
a good sort of semi-open air theatre as well.
He's given me the idea of being able to stage two different scenes
(or parts of the main epic) at different times - or even at the same
time, so the audience can wander from one to the other, armed with
a printed synopsis of what's going on.
The bowling club building with it's front wall missing would make
an ideal Hussars headquarters, of stately home, if done up a bit with
flats and curtains. (The council might see the possibility here of
getting the thing permanently done up under the MSC - with theatre
as the spur and excuse.) |
|