Artists of The Dancers Company backstage; photography by Jim McFarlane
Intricate sets, carefully timed action, fragile artistic temperaments and egos: nothing is sacred when it comes to adapting work for a national tour. All that counts is maintaining artistic excellence – everything else is up for grabs.
‘People always underestimate what it means when you take a show on the road. It’s one thing to build a show and put it into a venue; it’s another to have to rebuild it time and time again to make it look as good as it did the first time,’ said Bell Shakespeare’s Production Manager, Patrick Buckle.
