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this is backstage this is where we were
doing the shows with costume and sound
when we're doing any quick changes the
actors come offstage and it can be a
quick change from 5 minutes to 15
seconds we're working on taming industry
at the moment and that is quite a labor
intensive show we've got everybody with
wigs on which is not always usual it's
because the designer and director wanted
to swap the male and female roles so not
address men as women or women as men but
just illustrate by using Hera mica
women's status
the first contact I have of the show is
usually with the designer these are the
designers for sure and you can see this
quite a loft here after we've got one
for the shop but there's going to be a
lot of work we get it down to going on
but that's quite exciting
this is a lovely way and just a few of
these weeks here that we've already set
up my clear price is paying trickier and
this is her way so this is what we've
started off with and we will curve it
and dress IDO into a wild mad look
whereas the men in the show so like
James Cooney who is this beautiful black
wig we will roll it and make it quite
soft
he's Bianca in the show swapping
characters for male and female is sort
of more relevant for the play that he is
more feminine so as soon as we've done
that we start seeing everybody in the
show and we make shells which is
basically a form of somebody's head ok
so we've just pink of Charlie's hair so
we're going to put a stocking cap on and
then we try and go in to have some cling
film so we placed the cling film on
that's the base of our shell and then
we're going around the circumference of
Charlie's head
we could do this process for 20 actors
or we could to this process just for
three of us at a time we tried to get
the ready sort of at least six or eight
weeks in advance so any porn actors head
without them being here I'm not seeing
the front
every week so we use one or two hands at
a time and in different directions
according into which part if the front
is that so there's a few line is drawn
on it for those that go that way and
then these two lay over the top of each
other it's pretty time-consuming
depending on how fast are you leave
and then once you're through the bag
pick up a hair as soon as we've done
that the designer comes back in we fit
the wig on to the actor and that's the
first time the actors seen it usually
what we find to be honest is somebody
will put a wig on and got that's my
character that's amazing that's what I
want it to be might be with a few tweaks
but most of the time we've already done
most of our job so the purpose of the
technical rehearsal period is for us to
make sure that the leads of the show and
the actor met so that might mean
rehearsing quick changes it's almost
like a ballet that we were gauged around
an actor to get them back on stage on
time through the technical that's when
we work out and whether a change will
take two minutes or 30 seconds or 10
minutes
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when an actor comes into the wig room
they could have had a really bad day so
you have to react in all sorts of
circumstances sometimes an actor will
want to come in and rant at you they
want to come in and cry with you and you
have to be very sensitive to all those
things but mainly to bolster them back
up to more go to the wig room and go on
that stage there's a real skill to
taking care of that actor and it's
really important for them to have that
experience and that good experience
within the wig room