00:00:00 Laurence Connor audio to cast before going on stage
00:01:00 Rehearsing at LH2
00:02:30 Mark Fisher (set design) on the concept; visuals of sketches. World of the establishment and world of the crowd. Architectural symbol -> Stairs/pyramids: establishment at top, peasants at the bottom.
00:03:40 MF: Lawrence Connor’s idea to bring cross in from/as part of grid. Fitted with arc of show from darkness to light, punctuated by brightly lit establishment scenes.
00:04:30 LC: On Patrick Woodroffe. PW: visible paraphenalia of arena show. But more difficult to make delicate moments; challenge of dynamics between big spectacle and smaller moments.
00:06:00 ALW: sound, making words audible. Roger Lindsay (sound). Testing/choosing microphone headsets. Seamus Fenton (monitor engineer) – room sound and difficulties of monitoring in arena.
00:07:30 Ben Forster on vocal challenges of JCS. 00:08:00 on ‘Gethsemane’.