Directing The Barber of Seville
27-May-2009Bill Bankes-Jones

A formative moment in my directing life was when, as a trainee director, I worked on the overnight fit-up of a new production, alongside the carpenters, electricians, painters and stage crew. As a theatregoer, I suspect like most theatregoers, it had never occurred to me the enormous amount of simple human blood, sweat and tears that goes into making a set, how it took a big crowd of people a lot of puffing and grinding well past dawn to carefully assemble all these hand-built components.

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