A meeting with David Thacker and Lizzie Newman (who will act as assistant director on the play). We plan a timetable for the development of The Demolition Man, which is really helpful as it sets out over the course of the year all the deadlines I need to meet for various drafts. We tie these dates into the contract and David has arranged for Leslie Etherington, Administrator, to pop in and discuss amends. Also the other Octagon Leslie – Stage Manager - drops into the meeting to timetable a workshop week with actors in the lab and there is also discussion about having a designer working on the project early in the process.
David, Lizzie and I then discuss casting possibilities and how the play is progressing. I am pleased to find that some of their post-workshop thoughts concur with mine. Also I manage to persuade David that if the play is to be set totally in the garden, Fred needs a private space – i.e. his shed.
Our next meeting in May will continue along these lines but we will actually meet at Fred’s garden in Radcliffe Road (‘over fish and chips’ according to David but 2pm on a Saturday afternoon strikes me as an odd time to eat fish and chips!)
