Preview- Daily Object Writing – Mar 30 - Paul J Penton

Preview- Daily Object Writing – Mar 30

Mar 30th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Daily Writing

Was it really ready yet? That was the question that seemed to be grating like a cement mixer at the front of everyone’s mind. There’d been a month of rehearsal and argy and bargy and tweaking and tuning and now the evening was upon them All the big names would be there, the local press, the critics, the mums the dads, here for the full dress rehearsal. Backstage there was a sway in the swagger of the Chinese dragon, at this point nobody had given much thought to the inconsistency of it’s first appearance as a Chinese dragon and its second appearance as a pair of stilted legs reaching all the way beyond the lighting grid.

The critics of course would later in fact name the play ‘Joy’s disaster’. This musical realisation of ‘The Hobbit’. It had been a great journey though for the kids, new friends made, new loves formed, getting out on the platform and showing oneself. Feeling those galloping nerves today and right now before the first launch of the ship into the cosmos of uncertainty- how would it go? Who would forget their lines? Would the make up melt? Will there be enough people coming along?

Many many worries were orbiting in the minds of the participants and organisers, but, at the lift of the curtain it all unfolded like a Chinese doll, one scene leading into another. Green clad elves and dwarves, Bilbo Baggins singing his way to the dark mountain. Smaug the dragon laughing into an early version of a radio microphone with lots of echo and reverb, and at the end, a welcome hand of applause. It felt good, even though apparently it was so bad. When the preview was over, the aircraft hangar auditorium maintained a quiet brooding, collecting its energies for the real show the next day, while the players all stole their own nerves and bit on their own tongues waiting for ‘performance night’.

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