Out, damned spot!
Hey everyone, I’m Hauk - one of Tom’s fellow soldiers in Dunsinane. As Tom was saying in his last blog we’ve really been thrown in at the deep end. We’ve just finished our second preview and we’re still being given changes. I think the main thing we were unprepared for is the amount of dirt and blood we get covered in. Showers don’t seem to make a difference. Many of us have showered twice in the same day and still managed to find spots that are just as covered in the black make up (that turns us from ordinary young men in to hardened 11th century warriors) and fake bruises as when it was first put on. In fact, I was even greeted this morning by Lisa Hogg (who plays one of Gruach’s attendants and the Hen Girl) saying: “Oh you’ve still got blood in your ear.”
Obviously I’m not talking about real blood; I am talking about really bloody though. The blood we uses is similar to golden syrup (yes, that’s ‘golden syrup’) and some of it is thicker and stickier and it gets absolutely bleeding everywhere and it’s even worse if it gets in your hair – which, when your hair is as long as mine (pretty sure I have the longest hair in the company - including the girls) it is bound to.
Well, so as not to give any more away I’m not going to explain why I’m covered in so much blood. So if you want to find out why, you’ll just have to come and see the show! Till next time… To bed, to bed, to bed!
Hauk
