September 19, 2012
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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September 17, 2012
Yesterday was a significant day: we had our press performance, and the last performance with director Tim Crouch at the helm.
by Caroline Byrne
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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
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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
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September 17, 2012
One of the main characters in the Scottish Play utters the immortal line 'Why do you dress me in borrowed robes'...
by Chris Clarke
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