Blogs dated September 2012

Do we 'dumb down'?

September 19, 2012
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This week during a Q&A were asked a question on whether or not we dumb down our shows for young audiences...

by Dharmesh Patel  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Starting in Southampton

September 19, 2012

We began our first week at Bitterne Park School in Southampton. Their impressive new theatre provided a perfect space in which to test out our ideas about connecting with an audience that flank the stage on both sides as well as out front. The whole room is lit.

by Ben Deery  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

To Russia

September 19, 2012

The second two weeks were devoted to Boris Godunov. Again we delve straight into a history that is unknown to most of us. Russia!

by Youssef Kerkour  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Chinese opera

September 19, 2012

Well it's my second blog, but it's been four weeks since we started. The workshop section of rehearsals is now over, and we now begin rehearsing both plays at the same time.

by Youssef Kerkour  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Death

September 19, 2012

One in four people were killed in the plague that hit Stratford upon Avon two months after Shakespeare was born. The Shakespeares had already lost two girls aged six and a half and the other two years old. Imagine. Imagine also the joy when he was born, a son, an heir. Healthy and loved. St George's day 450 years ago in Henley street. They must have coddled him to within an inch of his life!

by Andrew French  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Who will you be to me?

September 17, 2012

Day 1. Drinking my cup of tea, staring into the Styrofoam cup and wondering why it tasted so good. Why my mouth was locked in a semi-permanent grin.

by Youssef Kerkour  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Cards and kind gestures

September 17, 2012
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Yesterday was a significant day: we had our press performance, and the last performance with director Tim Crouch at the helm.

by Caroline Byrne  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Grateful

September 17, 2012

Still in London. Wish it was cheaper to get around though. It is eating into the actor's wage that won't be enough to buy Theo his new pram (yes, he needs a new one already).

by Andrew French  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

A sudden realisation

September 17, 2012

If you'd have offered me a part in an RSC production four months ago I would have accepted it before you could say 'first folio'.

by Nathan Hawthorne  |  2 comments  |  Read this entry

Borrowed robes

September 17, 2012
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One of the main characters in the Scottish Play utters the immortal line 'Why do you dress me in borrowed robes'...

by Chris Clarke  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

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