Well that's finished up for Christmas now. I'm going to be so bored over the holidays. Bad thing about being ancient and at uni is that even though your off for ages all your mates are either working or stuck in the house experiencing the horror of parenthood. I'm looking foward to getting Christmas over with and starting back. The new project we're working is looking quite exciting so far. I'm trying not to think about it too much just now and just give the script another few read throughs so I can get to know it properly before trying to come up with a concept and all that. The play takes place in a Glasgow pub and shows various different characters. It's set in the mid 70's but I think it could actually be more relevant today than then. It deals with working class apathy and the need for working people to think up and act for themselves. In alot of ways apathy has increased since the 70's. In the play there's a hope that things could change in the future but nowadays after Thatcherism, New Labour and the way workers rights and social justice have become seen as being connected with "the bad old days" that hope seems to be fading in alot of people. People just seem to accept without question which is a theme that runs through the play. So I think the play would still be relevant to a contemporary audience.

From a technical point of view the play provides some interesting opportunitys to change from the actors as adults in a pub to children at school. The pub also has to change from when the characters are 16 to when the are maybe about 30 in the 70's. I'm lucky that the play is set in Glasgow and a pub because I can go out and look about the place, try to get more ideas and visit the odd pub while I'm at it. From a set point of view you could visit pubs in Glasgow that won't have changed all that much since the 70's but for costume that isn't the case. When you think 70's people have a strong idea of what the 70's look like but what would a downtrodden housewive wear or working class men in a pub. If they wore platforms they'd get done in. Will the class difference amongst the characters mean they look different aswell? Theres lost of stuff I'll need to research and consider.

Lighting wise I want to try and make sure it's a collabrative project and bring on board the lighting designers idea's. I don't know much about lighting so it's going to be good to learn a bit about it and bring it into a project.