From cradle to stage: child theatre actors - Times Online

21.12.08

Every week night, and twice on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the stage of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of the biggest in London, is filled with children. As the curtain goes up on Rupert Goold’s Oliver!, 50 boys, their faces smeared with grease and soot, sit at three long tables, while behind them loom the towering brick walls and broken windows of the workhouse. Anthony Ward’s vast set dips and snakes against a Dickensian London skyline; a bridge, accessed by two steel staircases, traverses the stage from one side to the other, and boys pour over the bridges and through a passerelle that runs across the orchestra pit. The potential for breaching health-and-safety regulations seems limitless.

Theatre is a notoriously precious environment at the best of times, but on this production tension ricochets down the phone line.

“I’m sorry, I’ve not had my coffee…” says the associate choreographer, Geoffrey Garratt, who is trying to explain the particular challenges of working with a total of 132 boys aged from 7 to 15, while in the background a coach disgorges a load of them onto the street outside. The boys are organised into three gangs of 34 and two of 16: Tanners, Shillings, Farthings, Micawbers and Wickfords work through the week on rotation, while a backstage crew of six chaperones is crammed into four dressing rooms, each with wide-screen TV, computer and board games. Anyone who has tried getting small boys organised in the morning might wonder how on earth this is going to work. I’m imagining half the workhouse paralysed in front of the TV an hour before curtain up, each with one sock on, having lost a vital bit of costume.

Source: Times Online, UK

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