All photos courtesy of official court photographer, Pat 'don't like Shakespeare anyway' Croughan and Raychel medicine woman Pills Hills
The set fairies visited the QEH this weekend, and started work. Very quickly it went from this...
... to this
Here's one of the little sprites now, doing the Hand Jam
And another, doing the Macca-rena
Here's a drinking sprite, drinking wine and sprite, with the hand of a sprite invading her pseronal space
This is the chief sprite with a lion
Here're sprites proving they're not just pretty faces
Sprite magic, feel the force
Ok, not a sprite, but a Shorrock
Spritey goodness
Sound sprite
Meanwhile, the actors checked themselves out in the paper, you should do it too
James Bond?
Cait two-drinks Davies
Earlier photos
Props gurus Annike and The Warren
Witchey witchey wicthey
'Prithee, peace'
But Anna fears it does funny things to your tum
John, practicing for the long loo session, oh, and, by the way, PICK OF THE WEEK
The play's double act I, Mac and Banq
and II, Men in Pants
Blood, glorious blood
Tim's fully prepared to prove his new-found Scottishness
And Neil tries to look like a mafioso, well done.
See, I know how to have fun too
Is it me, or does that a little like yours truly?
Flaggy goodness
"Geese villain?"
BANG!
Mored blood, sir?
Alex develops a crick in the neck
Here proving she's an artiste
John wonders whether the director wears a push-up bra
The Macbeth mafia
Some serious acting's starting to come out in the wash
Richard's seen something he shouldn't as Alex takes wearing a kilt to its limits
and then shaves a bit
This is almost the whole cast
And these are Lady and Mr Macbeth
Nice jacket Alex
Andy proves that, at 25, he's a man not a boy
Alistair even got in on the acting malarky
Mac & Banq
more shaving
King of the hippies
Again, ALMOST the whole cast!
Get in!
Alex helps Rick unwind
While the director doesn't need any help
The boys wonder who's line it is anyway
Father & Son, it's like Cat Stevens is in the room
See boys, I said it looked damn good
The brothers Grim
Some more good acting
Another good moment, watch and see why
Alex tries out his chat up lines, 'How now you black and midnight hag?'
Knife fetish anyone?
This is a horrid sight
The Vulcan death grip in action
Dunc and the lady
If we corall him, he wont be able to run away again...
This is Alex getting freaked out by our witches
And here's John practising his station in life
John gets miffed when Alex sneers at his saluting style
But the unsung heroes are still backstage: Annike
Andy Cotton's our military adviser
Charlotte's thinking of a new line of storybooks: Charlie and the lion?
And Pat's preparing some mug shots of our murderers
Hang on, how'd he get in here? and him
Omigod! It's Patrick McGoohan... I am not a number, I'm a member of the Macbeth cast
Appearing all over Bristol sometime soon: Macbeth, the 1970s classic
And downstairs, Newman electrifies
Stobbsy animates
Pispa cross dresses
And Hillsy gets all sex-u-al with a paintbrush
At which point Robin has to lay down the law: you treat those paintbrushes with respect girl
Ross feels the need for some Richie lovin'
Perfect ensemble of men
Mr Snazz
Welcome to the Church of Kelvin: we
are Janet
Al's too busy chewing to stir his own tea
Macduff confronts Malcy
Yraghl!
Ross, stop gurning and listen to me
Thornton decides the time has come for Macbeth the Musical: Love in a Sporron
Thornton's first day at big school
Alex walks owt of another rehearsal after being told off for his Brizzle once again, big giwrl
Accidentally brilliant
Mr & Mrs
Condescending, moi?
Nah, forget the musical, Macbeth the Modern Dance piece: Men in Kilts
Suzanne complains about the size of the director's patience
Poker, Caledonian style
Alex tries out what he's learnt at neck massage class
Mr admires Mrs' jewellry collection
Meanwhile, down below stairs, things creative and delightful are being cooked up by Turner et al
Robin's Angels
Why's Neil praying?
Because he's killed the director!
Alex is modelling yet another of his 'i was a teenage metaller' range, designed by Christian Dior
Where is that third hand going?
This may take the award for eeriest moment in the play, you'll have to come and see it to know why
oh, Alex, not content with Sue and Pat, you're trying to seduce Gallagher now too!
So this is what you get up to when I'm not around?
Notice the emergence of Christ in the background there...
Sue decides to pray for some real deliverance
... ah, well, you can't have everything, all hail King Thornton
The actors get bored in my rehearsals: here they are playing cards and chewing lighters (he's Scottish)
... on the phone to their boyfriends
... and trying their hand at applying some stage make-up, John, man, finesse!
There's sumfink in my eye
Aint that a kick in the tum?
This is what Alex looks like when he fights...
Feed'em Needham, Kelvin's answer to Sweeney Todd
No, now you're supposed to hack me to death
Yeah, I think I prefer using the actual gun
Kelvin's answer to the morris men
Sorry, Sam, I meant to say that fight looks reads REALLY well
How
come,
face-to-face, he's not so scary?
Sue shows that she still has a thing or two to learn about applying make-up to men
The dealer and the wheel
I think you missed a bit Director, it says here Macduff becomes King
Waiting for a peck on the cheek
Some excellent tongue acting from John
It's only what she deserves
Twitcher!
DO YOU SPEAK SHORROCK?
I'm not the pea sheller, I'm the pea-sheller's mate
When once Iwas Janet, now he is Viv
Talking of chemistry, the beard's working its magic elsewhere, captivating Doc Proc
Kelvin's answer to Bros?
One for Raych ;-)
The play what I'm in...
Hillsy attempts her own version of the 'Mac'arena, I call it the useless Hills pointy dance... but then, I'm jealous.
Let's not forget, this is a love story, of sorts...
The way the cast's already getting into the 'Thane, Cawdor, GLAMIS!' thing
And the amazing work that's going on behind the scenes already: marvel at Robin's majestic set...
C'mon everybody, it's the 'Mac'arena
Isn't she lovely?
Maybe we
should do Alien, the stage version.
Is Tim going to shout his way through this one as well?
Ms Hills (Producer), Master Thomas (Director)
