Adult Child / Dead Child: Let's Start at the Beginning...

Well hello everyone...and here we are at the start of a new adventure. We (Holly and Kat) seem to remember that on Kat's main blog, Stage Right, that she had mentioned that we were thinking of putting on a play called 'Adult Child / Dead Child' by Claire Dowie...well the news is that we've started. So that's the long and the short of it but what exactly is this new blog about. Well we thought it would be a good idea to keep a diary of our progress and thought that some of you may be interested to see what we were doing. So keep your eyes peeled for news, photos and clips from our rehearsals to see how just a script can turn into a fully fledged production.

If you want a bit more information on what 'Adult Child / Dead Child' is about please check out Kat's main blog about it by clicking here.

So what's happening now? Well, we held our first meeting a week last Tuesday and the main think that came out of this was that, even though the play is by Claire Dowie, we decided to take a rather Sarah Kane (most famously known for her plays 'Blasted' and '4.48 Psychosis') take on the play. This is because we really wanted to focus on the strong mental illness issue in the play and really try and get inside the head of the character and the heads of the audience.

Our other main decision at this stage was that, even though the play is written for one character, we are going to split the script between the two of us. We thought that by doing this it would show that mental illness can affect anyone, as well as emphasising the fact that Dowie created a non-specific character; it is not mentioned whether the character is male, female, short, tall, ginger, blonde, etc.

So far we have sorted out about three pages of the script and our favourite line at the moment is 'Blackmail, threats, treachery and hatred'...I have a feeling this line may have to occur a few more times during the play. And, so, before we leave you we'll post a few pictures from our first meeting.