I can’t really believe it’s been a month since the last post. A lot of things happened, though.

We have a beautiful poster and beautiful flyers that we all distributed around (cafés, university rooms, library etc). I created an event on Eventbrite, I sent millions of emails.

Unfortunately, one of the performers had to withdraw for health-related reasons, and I decided to join the cast.

The search for tables and chairs hit many walls, in the end, Pizza Posto agreed to lend us six of their chairs and, in absence of any other cheap solution, I decided to turn an extra door from my flat into a table.

There is still a lot to polish before the performance (in 11 days!!!).

Here is a picture of part of the cast in front of a screen advertising our show at 50 George Square: we remembered the day of Aldo Moro’s kidnapping in our own way!

I met the venue’s technician, who reassured me about some technical aspects (at the end of every performance, I promise myself that the next one will be very easy from a technical point of view. It never happens).

I spent a considerable amount of time looking for a way to print vintage-looking newspaper and finally Helen, our set designer, directed me towards The Newspaper Club. Some lovely brochures are also on their way with the performers’ bio.

Since I won’t be in the control room during the performance, I had to find an Italian-speaking stage manager/production assistant to launch the English subtitles for the spoken parts during the show. Initially, I thought I could get away with the subtitles timing the performers and creating some video files, as it will be for the recorded voices, but it appears to be too risky.
Being married to a nerd facilitated the process of transferring all the subtitles from my timeline to ppt. What is left to do is tag the whole script so that the production assistant will easily follow what happens on stage.

On the back of the cereal bars box, which is not sponsoring the performance and therefore will remain anonymous, I sketched the set-up for all the scenes, for our own use and to help the light designer to navigate through the show.

Looking forward to share all this work with an audience!