First day of rehearsals
I
visited the first rehearsal of Shafana and Aunt
Sarrinah yesterday
which is in excellent, spine-tingling shape. Alana
Valentine has steadily and masterfully filtered
feedback received over the last 6 months and
crafted the play into something markedly different
to the draft I first read in January.
Clockwise
from the checked shirt: Daniel Hunter (SM),
Aarne Neeme (Director), Deirdre Burges
(Designer), Sheridan Harbridge (Shafana),
Camilla Ah Kin (Aunt Sarrinah), Alana Valentine
(Playwright), Tony Youlden (Lighting) and
May-Brit Akerholt (Dramaturg). In the
background: one of the numerous University of
Sydney Department of Performance Studies'
students studying the rehearsal process.