Blogs dated October 2012

How does Cordelia die?

October 4, 2012
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In Act 5 Scene 3 of King Lear, Shakespeare wrote arguably one of the most powerful of his few stage directions.

by Ben Deery  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

The Comedy of King Lear

October 3, 2012
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Last week in Newcastle a young audience member asked 'why is King Lear so funny'? There are comic moments from the fool/kent and Edmund, but this is the tragedy of King Lear, not the comedy! Or is it...

by Caroline Byrne  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Our Lear family

October 3, 2012
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We, the actors, turn up to schools, do a show and get the credit, but it's important to point out that our job is made easy by four people in particular.

by Dharmesh Patel  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Curtain up?

October 3, 2012

So: In Bradford, the iron didn't go out. In theatre parlance, that means the curtain that comes down onstage during the interval, did not go back up again. Oh, dear.

by Andrew French  |  2 comments  |  Read this entry

Eunuchs and Al Pacino

October 1, 2012
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Well it's been a tough old week. We're all hurting from a particularly long day of acrobatics, and people riding with Lina Johanson again for Boris Godunov rehearsals.

by Youssef Kerkour  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Bradford

October 1, 2012

So. It has been raining. A lot. It seems to always rain when I come up north. Now I know that can't be true. I know there must have been many times when I have frolicked in the summer sun. But right now, I can't seem to remember them. So most of us are spending our time in our hotel rooms watching the rain it raineth every day.

by Andrew French  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Transformations

October 1, 2012

The past week has seen a number of important steps in the process of getting Pericles ready to hit the ground running when we open on the 5th October. I've had intense rehearsals of the scenes I'm involved in, a personal voice call with the fabulous Michael Corbridge, and the most important thing for a group of actors, the first cast party.

by Nathan Hawthorne  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

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