05.07.07

Arcola!!! Show & Tell done!!!

Posted in Friends, School, X-team at 13:01 by Joanne Crotty

I can not believe it! We arrived at school at 1pm so we could put finishing touches on the door me and Adam spent all of Friday building!!! (yes it took ages to build a frame and door) so when the couch arrived at 2 we with great difficulty loaded the door onto the underneath of the couch and the rest, X team got the back of the couch and we were off!

We got to the Arcola around 3:30 and unload the props into the cafe and waited 45Min’s for the last show to finish and get out. We then carried the props (THE HEAVY DOOR) into the studio, i took one look at the stage and wanted to scream! we were have 3 sets of audeince’s around us, no proper back stage area and it was a crap hole! I could have cried!But still some stupid person once said “The Show Must Go On”, clearly they had not seen the Arcola!!!

We moved the wings to the back of the stage for the stage crew, hung the set over them. I almost fell off the ladder which Josh and Adam saved me! we then did a tech run through and set out where the mice were to be pulled from. And I still hated it, I promise the lighting and sound if things went wrong i would not be coming back. I then rung the one person who would laugh at this so much. Jordan. To which he in a very unconvincing tone wished us all luck.

 Then we started the show……I couldn’t fault it! not once! The actors didn’t get there lines right but they were in the right place *ish* and the props worked well. THE DOOR DIDN’T BREAK! but Matt smith couldn’t work it! So there went my promise of i’ll leave if it goes wrong, just when I had a chance of getting out!!! :P

We packed up, and loaded the props onto the coach, which really annoyed the X as the actors just moved us, from our seats while we packed up THEIR show. we sat on the coach, ate bags of crisps and took photos, i rung Jordan again to tell him how it went….AND WE MISSED DR. WHO!!!

Door that caused so much trouble!

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