So this week The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is playing at Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham. I am supervising the lighting desk for the week and running the desk myself for a few shows. I am having so much fun doing it and learning so much!
I was lighting operator for the opening nights performance and this is the review we got in the Nottingham Post:
Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Lace Market Theatre, by Alan GearyTuesday, February 07, 2012
Director Martin Berry gets it very right again with this outstanding production. It's a good play – darker probably, if memory serves, than the 1998 film – and Berry presides over a number of good, sometimes startlingly good, performances.
Lauren McGee, as LV with her little piping voice gets the necessary rabbity shyness brilliantly, and has a great voice for the divas. Her wonderful song medley in Mr Boo's club is a highlight of the evening.
Kareena Sims, as Mari, her coarsely larger than life, over-sexed mother, is outstanding. And Ali Patrick's Sadie, gormless, silent and greedy, is beautifully done. What might sometimes appear to be over-acting in these two parts is almost certainly over-writing by playwright Jim Cartwright.
Small-time agent Ray Say, the cocky, blingy, type, is played superbly by Chris Moseley. He makes Say almost unbearably seedy and pathetic in the bit when his plans have crashed around him and he sings along to It's Over in front of a tacky curtain.
We get a massively cluttered, well-observed set with a free-standing entrance/exit door. The five-piece live band is suitably un-subtle, raucous and nicely over loud – it's a working-mens' club.
You weary at the incompetence and hopelessness of Cartwright's characters. As in some of his other plays, you know they're never going to break out of the imprisoning situation they find themselves in. And there are some deeply disturbing patches in the play, incidentally made more so by the sound effects.
This is an unmissible piece of theatre.
Alan Geary
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice runs at the Lace Market Theatre till Saturday, 11th February
Although lighting did not get a mention I am still incredibly proud to be involved with this production. Everyone involved has been a pleasure to work with and I would like to say congratulations to all of them.
I would say come along and see it, but most of the remaining shows are sold out. But if you can get a ticket, then do it, you will not be disappointed!
I was lighting operator for the opening nights performance and this is the review we got in the Nottingham Post:
Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Lace Market Theatre, by Alan GearyTuesday, February 07, 2012
Director Martin Berry gets it very right again with this outstanding production. It's a good play – darker probably, if memory serves, than the 1998 film – and Berry presides over a number of good, sometimes startlingly good, performances.
Lauren McGee, as LV with her little piping voice gets the necessary rabbity shyness brilliantly, and has a great voice for the divas. Her wonderful song medley in Mr Boo's club is a highlight of the evening.
Kareena Sims, as Mari, her coarsely larger than life, over-sexed mother, is outstanding. And Ali Patrick's Sadie, gormless, silent and greedy, is beautifully done. What might sometimes appear to be over-acting in these two parts is almost certainly over-writing by playwright Jim Cartwright.
Small-time agent Ray Say, the cocky, blingy, type, is played superbly by Chris Moseley. He makes Say almost unbearably seedy and pathetic in the bit when his plans have crashed around him and he sings along to It's Over in front of a tacky curtain.
We get a massively cluttered, well-observed set with a free-standing entrance/exit door. The five-piece live band is suitably un-subtle, raucous and nicely over loud – it's a working-mens' club.
You weary at the incompetence and hopelessness of Cartwright's characters. As in some of his other plays, you know they're never going to break out of the imprisoning situation they find themselves in. And there are some deeply disturbing patches in the play, incidentally made more so by the sound effects.
This is an unmissible piece of theatre.
Alan Geary
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice runs at the Lace Market Theatre till Saturday, 11th February
Although lighting did not get a mention I am still incredibly proud to be involved with this production. Everyone involved has been a pleasure to work with and I would like to say congratulations to all of them.
I would say come along and see it, but most of the remaining shows are sold out. But if you can get a ticket, then do it, you will not be disappointed!
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