blogging from the bush
5 october 2011
every week one of the non zero one team posted to the bush theatre blog, giving various updates on the process of making our site-specific production this is where we got to when you came in, being performed september 2011 at the Bush theatre
the last post, by ivan on 21 september, was simply our last goodbye to the bush building
on 20 september one of our fantastic volunteers simone finney gave an account of how it all runs backstage
on 13 september fran wrote about the final moments the day before we open...
on 30 august fran wrote about the tense moments after our first lot of test runs
on 12 august our wonderful designer julian berndt gave us a brief insight into the organised choas of co-designing over 10 different rooms!
on 10 august elinor gives a glimpse into writing to the second
on 2 august alex gives us the lowdown 7 weeks to go and fran wrote about scripting first drafts
on 30 june fran spoke of the speakers - notably our interviews with bush alumni
on 22 june cat got down and dusty about our trips to the incredible bush archive
on 3 june alex wrote of our tentative and nerve-wracking beginnings of scriptwriting
on 24 may our co-writer Elinor Cook wrote about what it's like to embark on a noisy collaboration with the nz1 family
on 20 may ivan speaks of our relationship with a slice of bush theatre history aka the "bush book"
on 12 may ivan starts to explain how we start to get a feel for each of the rooms we want the audience to explore
on 3 may john blogged about our ongoing love/hate relationship with the infamous neon-green bush theatre front door
on 20 april sarah spoke of our initial thoughts on jumping in to a building so full of history, post-it notes vowel-less fridge magnets