The Orchid
The Orchid previewed over the weekend of April 21st/22nd at Assembly Roxy and went pretty darn well. Thanks to everyone who came along and, as always, to our amazing cast of actors. Both they, and Low, worked incredibly hard to rehearse not one, but two plays. Because at TwentySomething we enjoy making things just a little more complicated than absolutely necessary.
The Orchid tells the story of a couple, Alex and Sam, and their relationship. The audience watches as it grows and develops. Because of how I wrote it, we wanted to emphasize that this couple could be absolutely anyone and that the important thing is who they are to each other and who they are together. To that end we had a different couple each night. Saturday was John and Tom, Sunday was Rowan and Suzanna. And if you come see the show in Prague, you'll see a different couple on each of the four nights we're performing! (Oh yeah, four plays for Prague - nbd) I'm so glad we were able to make the show work this way and so excited to see our two new couple combinations in rehearsals over the next few weeks.
Can we also have a moment to appreciate this gorgeous image? Cat Thomson is amazing. And we're very close to having this image turned into beautiful posters, courtesy of the totally wonderful Katie Wilkinson (who designed our Hell Has No Fury poster) who we've so glad has been able to work with us again!
Cat also popped along to our dress rehearsal for our Sunday show and snapped some lovely photos of Rowan and Suzanna.
Pub Quizzin'
It's safe to say our pub quiz was another riotous success. We managed to raise over £150 for the Prague Fringe Fund. Our winners were.... my family. They went home with four tickets to Summerhall's Courtyard Ceilidh and a bottle of rum (my sister disappeared pretty sharpish with that.) As always we had a plethora of fantastic raffle prizes. The winners went home with booze, vouchers and even more tickets for Summerhall events, plus a Tennant's brewery tour.
Thanks to everyone who came along. We appreciate your support SO MUCH and literally wouldn't be able to keep doing what we're doing without it.
If you weren't able to make it along, here's a question for you. This was part of our Explain a film plot badly round. Basically, what's the film?
Sudden inflation causes a housing crisis
Tweet us your answers!
It's less than two weeks before I head off to Prague, the rest of the team will be following quickly afterwards. Make sure you're following us on twitter and instagram to keep up with our time at Prague Fringe. We cannot wait to be back there!
Sweeney x
