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In a week from now we’ll be in Egypt… which is a slightly surreal thought when wandering through drizzly Sidcup to our rehearsal room. We’ve made some changes to the show. We’ve taken out some of the more complicated and technical set devices (which unfortunately also means scrapping the ultra cool, gesture controlled ‘hamlet-machine’, sorry Basti) to make the show more tour-friendly. Within the new limitations we’ve actually found some rather nice solutions and new methods of staging stuff and we’re excited to see how they will work… There’s also been lots of rummaging through prop and costume stores, trying to salvage as many of the original production’s items as possible… Many of these have been un-lovingly stashed away and the indispensable fake skull turned up in pieces. Our skull scouting expeditions to Goth shops, magic and theatre stores have been unsuccessful, and desperation has driven us to contemplate the option of paying a nightly visit to a cemetery with a good shovel. If you have any ideas as to where we can get a skull let us know ASAP and the deed may yet be avoided. When it comes to the purchasing of standard theatrical utensils London is a cursed city. On a previous occasion we found it impossible to locate a red nose in any one of the cities’ five-zillion joke shops. Still no news as to which venue in Cairo we’ll be performing in…

- Philip

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