Back at the Baby Grand

Yesterday I was back at the Baby Grand, Grand Opera House, Belfast dying for some of that "so close you can see their nose-hairs" theatre feeling, and I loved what I got!  I remember when Nuala McKeever and I opened there with Out of the Box last December, after several months on the road tin venues where the struggle was to reach people emotionally across the void of aisle, pit, lights and stage front, the audience in the Baby Grand seemed impossibly close.  How were we going to put the show across when they might be crawling over each other to get away from a performance that began two inches in front of their noses?

 Now as I plan for our next project, which is rooted in comedy, and definitely wants that something of that "sit on their knee and let em see yer false moustache" atmosphere, I'm really looking forward to the intimacy of the Baby Grand.  More news on this project will follow when we've put a little more flesh on the bones, but I'm hoping that is the kind of thing that might appeal outside Ireland.  And I'll certainly know what people think of the show after a few evenings in there!  As for the exact date, well we're hovering around a bit, like a plane waiting to land at Heathrow, but either late October or late November are looking promising.