Productions Snakes and ladders

I have been most remiss.  Zhvan is up and running once more, has been for a few weeks now, yet my blog has had no mention of it.  I suppose

The most important news, which has made everyone very excited, is that the play is complete, and that we now have bound copies to work from (I was able to

An earlier trip out to London today, as it had been arranged for a group of us to take a look at the venue for the performance that has been

Two rehearsals to report on.  In both cases, we had to deal with absences, but still managed to make good progress.  Roji has had to move to Sheffield, and so

We have nearly completed some sort of rehearsal of the whole play; today we wanted to tackle probably the most challenging scene of the play, and its emotional heart: Hamed’s

Both Hamed and Maria have come up with posters for the show.  They are remarkably similar – though it is true that the title does suggest this, as a visual

With just over a week before our first performance, this was our last rehearsal at the Welsh Harp Sailing Association clubhouse.  It has proved extremely useful – without it we

One means of rehearsal that has been used extensively in rehearsals for Snakes and ladders has been the use of the phone.  Not that we can claim any particular uniqueness

An enormous apology.  I had fully intended to document the final few days leading up to the performance itself, but each time I was simply so exhausted that it was

As in, the last night (for the time being at least) of Snakes and ladders.  And all, to be fair, a little bit frantic.  I was not there for one

Snakes and ladders goes again.  Now that I have returned from India, the intention is that Hamed completes the play, adding in the section where he travels from Italy to

In some ways, Zhvan is moving in the right direction.  We now have a home for rehearsals, granted us by WeRESTART, a community ARTS Organisation, based in North London (I