Rich at Gecko

Night Light are so busy we havent had any time to BLOG! Lets catch up a little bit.

Here's a Blog that Rich wrote at some ungodly hour after a very long day with Gecko Theatre...

"The Warwick Arts Centre is brilliant. Let’s just get that out of the way. We have taken over the Helen Martin studio for the past week and it has been a wonderful week of development. We are currently in the fifth week of our research period, every day the show changes, every rehearsal brings new ideas to the room. After three weeks we performed our first work in progress in Eastleigh and it was an enlightening experience. Only by offering ourselves up to the audience are we able to fully understand the possibilities and potential of this piece. The feedback and response in general was massively encouraging and hugely valuable to our journey with this piece.

When asked to talk a bit about what goes on in the rehearsal room I find myself drawing a bit of a blank…It isn’t as if I don’t remember what we did today, it’s just that every day is a spiralling, kaleidoscopic, multidisciplinary blur. The room is an inspiring amalgamation of a theatre workshop, a dance studio, a sound studio, a prop store and a traditional rehearsal space. In any given minute we could be painting, staple-gunning, dancing, singing, choreographing or writing. The list goes on. Gecko work in an entirely collaborative way, the performers work with the technical team seamlessly and it leads to an exceptionally organic and highly creative process.

‘Chipping in’ has been the key to this process, every moment of the show has been in some way influenced by the entire creative team and at the heart of it is artistic director Amit Lahav who orchestrates everyone with more joy and energy than is normally expected of any human being. He conducts every member of the team with an obsessive eye for detail and a passionate commitment to finding brave and bold ways of storytelling. Gecko do nothing by halves. Amit has an epic version of the show in his mind and collectively we strive to realise that vision in the most challenging and beautiful way we can. The result, we hope, will be an exciting, visceral, emotional experience. With a production which doesn’t focus on ’story’ but on experience, we want the audience to feel and subsequently consider their emotional response to the work. We are at the Warwick Arts Centre as part of a hugely experimental process of research and development and we hope that our audience will provide an essential response which will help us craft the final version of Missing."

Rich is back at Night Light full time now but i'm sure it wont be long before he's climbing up the walls Gecko again...

Dave