A PEEK AT THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
Geraldine Broderick discusses set construction details with John ten Velde and Jack Visser, who are going to build a thrust stage for this play.
A first rehearsal during which prop placement and even lighting are given thought.
While narrator Nick Broderick studies his introduction...
... John surprises everybody with a strikingly beautiful leather folder...
... including fittingly designed pages as a prop for the storytellers.
Can there be anything more suitable, more classy for this purpose?
The show dates for Grimms' Tales coincide with the Fringe Festival on 9 March 2024, held just down the road at the Historic Village. It was a no-brainer to show up there with a fitting, weird and wonderful promotion prop: a Rapunzel tower. It will be used as a photo-op at the theatre as well as at the festival. There, a storyteller is going to tell Grimms' fairy tales - of course not the ones told at the theatre - while at the same time advertising the show to those with an appetite for a stronger dose of horror.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair...
... from a 2.4m tower made from a disused Corflute sign.
Jack Visser and John ten Velde measure where the head hole goes...
... around which Rapunzel's hair will be attached.
John works on the brickwork of the window, starting with the polystyrene keystone, ...
... then Jack continues laying bricks downwards.
Shelley Francis admires the dress she will be wearing as Charlotte Grimm.
Wardrobe manager Kay Burnie checks whether all seams are intact.
Maybe the dress is a little bit long, depending on the heel height of shoes.
But otherwise it fits perfectly.
Building the stage