Act 1: Scene 2: Week 3

So as a cast member of Peter Pan we have to move from venue to venue and every morning we set up the props, costumes, and lights etc. On an average 2 show day we will wake up around 5.30 make sure we have all the costumes that we've washed the night before and had them ironed. We get our instruments and we go down to breakfast while we wait for our taxi pick up which is usually around 6.45/7. Once we arrive at the venue we will get into the theatre and set up. We do the shows, and then we all chip in to do the get out. Me and Kate, who plays Wendy, are on props and costumes. Michael is on lights. Mr Smee's jobs is to take up all the wires and floor cloth. Captain Hook, the narrator, John and Peter Pan all have the job of taking down the video wall. The video wall is essentially a HUGE TV made up of 60 little TV's to create our background. It shows the street, the nursery, Neverland and on board The Jolly Rodger. This is the main feature of the show as it has animated scenes that make us look like we're all flying to Neverland. It takes us all about 45 minutes to get everything out the building and loaded onto the truck ready to move to the next place. After we have done the drop off we head back to the apartments and relax for the rest of the day! 

It's the 3rd week in and this week has been really quite chilled out as we've only had 5 shows in 3 days work. It's going to start getting more tiring as we are slowly approaching 18 days straight of work. There is a place about 30 minutes out of Dubai where we are staying called Sharjah and there is a book festival there so we will be performing at that over the weekend which would usually be our days off to then fly straight to Bahrain to perform the shows again. It's all worth it though as I get to go to Abu Dhabi and see the richest city in the world! .. I think it's known as a state actually but for the blogs sake and to make it sounds more dramatic I'll say city. 

As we're approaching a hard weekend of relaxing with an iced hazelnut frappe, watching the Dubai Fountains, going up to the top of the Burj Khalifa, visiting the world biggest water park and having a touristy view on all the little back alley markets.. I'll try and remember what it was like to do house work and keep on top of every day life activities.. But for now.. I'm off to the Party beach. 34 degrees, sun, music and a lot of happy people!