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History ensemble member Nick Asbury on run throughs and still smelling of leeks.
Stagger through
We had our first 'Stagger' through (as opposed to a RUN through) yesterday (Wednesday) of the whole caboodle. And, you know what, it wasn't that bad. In fact some of it - namely the scenes I'm not in - was brilliant.
 Geoffrey excelled himself, Slinger's Welsh is really singing and getting a good bit of Merthyr into it, Geoff Freshwater reduced us to tears of laughter in the second scene, as did Hannah and Alexia later, and the reading out of the dead simply reduced me to tears.
As a consequence of all that I have a humdinger of a hangover and I still reek of leek. (Which sounds like something Jamie Oliver would cook....)
We have a week and a half to go before we move up to Stratford and start our week of tech rehearsals. This is where the real work starts. We've been working so hard already but now we have something resembling a show, this is the time we put our foot on the gas and knock what we have in to shape. We are facing a Week of the Long Knives as there will be a fair degree of pruning. But we've grown used to that.
But we had a nice evening in the pub afterwards and people who were doing understudy rehearsals long into the night came out and joined us. I have a vague recollection of ringing my mother later on. Which is strange. Never done that before. And, frankly, a schoolboy error. 'Bout time I got a girlfriend again, by the sound of it. Sigh. But they wouldn't be able to put up with the smell of leek.
And then I had my second 'stagger thru' of the day into my mate's flat. Thank God that wasn't a 'run' through. He wouldn't have been happy.
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