Time appears to be speeding past us in the rehearsal room. Dolloping by in a haze of warm-ups, rehearsing, tea breaks, notes, stretching, music, conversation, reruns, exercises, food runs, tea breaks. It seems like no time at all since or company was first getting to grips with the text, and now we have completed full runs of each. And we start technical rehearsals for Frankenstein imminently. Our plays are 'timeless'. Hedda Gabler and Dr Frankenstein are both adaptations o

"Everything that looks like a chair is a chair." "It feels like hyper reality. A chair is a char." "Madness!" This conversation might seem unnecessary or ridiculous in any rehearsal room. But Frankenstein seems to be pulling the madness out of all. Things are never quite what they seem. And our company have had more than one moment where it has been necessary to question everything. We have worked on dream sequences this week, mining them for 'psychological richness'. Our Vic

This blog records developments in the rehearsal room on the co-production between Greyscale and Northern Stage. Two plays, HEDDA GABLER; This Is Not A Love Story and DR FRANKENSTEIN. One cast. Rehearsed at the same time. This week's blog opens with two lines of conversation. This occurred between one of our actors and Lorne during Frankenstein rehearsals: “Am I real? I'm having an existential crisis. I can answer that for you easily. No. You are not real.” That conversat