Amusing moment at the start of day 6 of rehearsals for #Roundthetwist.
At a few minutes to ten a web cam in the SJM would have picked up five blokes staring at a table in the middle of the stage. On that table running round and round was a small wind up engine, tender and Pullman Carriage. Who’d have thought that something going round and round endlessly would have so engrossed five grown men.
But it did..
[The Guilty Object – shown here cruelly bereft of its unique track]
The silence was only broken by our designer Ian saying ‘ of course somebodies bound to complain that that kind of engine wasn’t around then’
‘Or that the livery is wrong’ I piped up ‘ Green was Southern – not sure what Eastern was’
Our production manager – Steve – quietly coughed. ‘Erm Mr Linley you seem to be demonstrating a slightly geeky level of knowledge there. Something you want to tell us…’
Shamefully I was heard to utter ‘oh my dad is a big steam train fan’…and I exited stage left to go and make a cup of tea.
