Christy looking at the i-phone and noticing the time and the jobs that need doing. Going off to buy more bubblewrap and make up sponges while we wait for our order.
Bubblewrap first show in Adelaide. Driving Nona through security. Nona is so pretty and unusual everyone lets her through the gates. It’s like having a cute child or a puppy. Basking in reflected admiration.
3 hours to bump in and tech before the show. It’s not long considering that Nat, the tech operator has never seen the show and it takes nearly an hour to find a park and bump in the set and another hour to do make up and warm up and check tricks in the space.
The Bosco theatre is pretty with painted black floorboard stage, red velvet curtains and audience in a raked semi circle of wooden benches. Old-school carni aesthetic out the front. We all love it.
While Luke and Christy are building the set I start to create lighting states with Nat. Purple for France, blue and green for Underwater. I watch her programming chases for the explosion scene and Mission Improbable into the desk.
The Bosco is full of chinks where the sun shines through so there’s no point doing black outs.
First show. Luke ‘asleep’ on stage. Front of house woman checks with us, I turn on ‘return to sender’ and the audience pile in.
That night Christy and Joh do two cabarets. Luke and I go to shows. We reconvene outside the Deluxe speigle at about 1 in the morning where Christy and Joh are packing their cabaret costumes away. Go in together and watch Mitch in drag put pegs on his face to Janice ‘take another little piece of my heart’. Hilarious.
Sleep in Nona just outside the garden gates. 5 hours sleep broken by party noises and bottle recycling being piled away.
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