KlangHaus Alight Here Day 4 & 5

The days fly by and also lollop along in treacle at the same time. so much walking, up and down the depot and also around Colchester trying to find equipment, leads and asking favours, so many favours! I enjoyed my Day 4 morning, in the space on my own singing and making friends with the building. We work in a structured way, we check in with each other regularly and make lists and schedules, this stops us drifting aimlessly towards an immovable deadline of TODAY at 6.30pm. Show 1 at 6.30pm was in daylight... by the end the audience could see the projections in the dusk, lesson 1 learned. The first audience was huge, maybe 60 people... but when we got to the bus section,they piled on! They literally rocked the bus. Show one was odd because of it being so light. Show two was a corker. We tightened up some silent gaps, the projections were glorious. Blocked by stars a favourite moment and Go Have Fun. The bus rocked agin, we took our time and were present. Lesson 2, get a non paying 'false-audience' in as part of set up. You cannot know how an audience will feel just by imagining it...you need bodies. We were a bit of a h&S nightmare for the two Arts Centre owners present. the team did really well. I got all bossy and need to pipe down! We end the show under the bus.