His Dark Diary

His Dark Diary
So Many People!

There were a total of 37 auditionees over the two evenings, including at least three married couples, a pair of brothers and another of sisters. Damon's task now is to match these people to the many, many characters involved in the story. Only a small proportion expressed a particular preference to which character they would like to play; I'm not sure if that makes the process easier or harder. There was a remarkable amount of talent on show, from the longest serving Bench member to a good number of new faces, mostly youngsters, who generally held their own.

To make things easier we labelled everyone on arrival with their own name (stickers and marker pens) and took everybody's photograph. These are now published so that Damon has some hope of matching faces to names; sadly since the same web page includes everyone's contact information I can't make it public, but I'd like to include photographs on the web as soon as we can. (A few of Will and Lyra would be nice, don't you think?)

My time now on the project is bring funneled into the web. It will be a publicity vehicle and also an information center; by protecting a set of pages with a simple password we can create some privacy (not particularly secure but away from casual prying eyes) where we can publish everyone's contact information, meeting notes, rehearsal dates and all manner of other things. Those web pages are actually taking shape, so this evening I shall try and prod into life the main page. I've decided that it will have a different look and feel from the main Bench page, but design isn't really my forte so any feedback and suggestions would be most welcome: the page is at http://www.benchtheatre.org.uk/plays0607/hdm/ and you can email me with any ideas.