I’ve been Zooming with MA students on their acting course at East 15 through most of June. This was their final show, Auden and Isherwood’s The Dog Beneath the Skin. I’d worked on the play before, and written a score for it. We used the score again, with some adaptations. To produce it involved each student rehearsing in, and filming themselves from, lockdown.
The MD-ing and song-teaching was a challenge; I needed to send both practice tracks and backing tracks to the cast, and it took some time to assemble what were mainly ensemble songs. Andrea Brooks and Louise Amos directed. We all found it a technical rites of passage experience…
Colin Sell 