What a very special week it has been, playing in the glorious Wilton’s Music Hall, our composer Zoe Rahman’s music tip toeing up the stone walls, echoing the space with ragtime and blues. It’s a joy to get my fingers around her music each night and deepening my practice, expanding my improvisation skills and create with a bunch of very playful actors. The feedback so far has been so very positive and our London audiences lit up our nights. Highlights include the evening when they all started clapping along to one of the original music hall songs in our piece. Who is to say that we didn’t all time travel back to its original glory days when those walls shook with song, hundred of late 19th century Londoners crammed into the space hot with music and laughter? As I warmed up in the empty space each night before the show, filled with an expectant silence, and the muffled chatter of that evening’s audience beyond the door I felt great gratitude to have tip toed through a small moment of this place’s history. Thank you to all the vaudevillians who came before. You’ve left your mark in the haunting beauty of this special space.
And now….we hit the road….!