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The Parachute Debacle
Posted by Rehearsal Room on 31st Aug 2010 at 16:36 | Anthology | 0 comments
We’re in the middle of rehearsals for Anthology. And thought we’d let you know what we are up to. As you might have guessed there are daily sessions with brilliant actors working text, mining meaning, staging emotion.
But there’s also a statue of a half lamb, half banana creature that must be made to move under remote control. There’s a penguin that must be made to look like he’s from the 1950’s. A series of pyrotechnics to test. A selection of household names that need to be recorded so their familiar voices can contribute to the stories. A caravan that must be made to look like a spaceship.
And there was a parachute. A World War II style parachute. And we thought it would be the work of a moment to open to the wind, let rise magnificently and record the footage we needed. Oh how wrong we were!.....
Nicholas Shaw and Alan Lane
So you've got yourself a WWII style parachute. You've got a video camera. And you reckon you can inflate it open and get some decent footage of a parachute.
You put the actor that you've kidnapped from the Liverpool Everyman behind the camera with Lucy so no harm can come to him.
What could possibly go wrong? Right?
In our defence the only lasting damage was to Matt's hand which ended up getting quite badly bruised. And of course our pride.
And the kidnapped actor? Once he realised we were all getting dragged to the car park he abandoned his chaperone with the phrase "They need me. I'm going in".
God love, Nicholas Shaw - a genuine trooper and good sport.
Thank goodness he did jump- otherwise we might still be getting our asses dragged along.
Hardly Slung Low's finest hour. But you live and learn. And if you can’t laugh at yourself then something is wrong.
Slung Low x
Parachute Debacle from Slung Low on Vimeo.
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