Sam and Shakey

Hello all - my name's Sam Church and I'm a SWILLer!  This month I'm taking a month out from my regular work as a children's illustrator to do something I've been wanting to do for ages...  

After a little gentle pestering, the acclaimed Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory theatre company have allowed me to sit in on their rehearsals for King Lear so that I can sketch them.  I asked to do this partly as a technical exercise, but  hopefully it'll also turn into a nice document of the production which I can exhibit at the theatre.

I've just finished my second week of 4 - you can see all my rehearsal pictures (as well as some pictures of cartoon animals) on my blog, http://samchurch.blogspot.com/

In the meantime King Lear starts on Feb 9th (followed by a production of Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard'), and I strongly recommend getting tickets - in this humble scribe's opinion it's shaping up to be a bit special...