Blogs by Nick Day

Hanging around

March 21, 2012
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Well, Comedy is up and running. It was a tough tech – for the techies and our stage management especially – because it's a highly technical show.

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As Shakespeare intended

March 16, 2012
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David Farr is often telling us how Shakespeare has his characters turning on a sixpence. We can fall into the trap of not moving with the changes fast enough because of decisions we have made about our characters mood and objectives.

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Tech

March 14, 2012
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So this is how it goes. On Monday we would start a technical rehearsal that continues through twelve hour days until Wednesday, when we might have time for a dress rehearsal in the evening.

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The arrival

March 9, 2012
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Well, we're in Stratford. The weather coming up the M40 was as bad as could be – when overtaking a big truck meant being blinded in its spray. You know what it's like.

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Clapham, au revoir

March 6, 2012
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Well, that's it. Clapham, au revoir. It was a celebratory day in some ways. I persuaded the staff at Clapham North tube station to write my own bon mots on their 'Thought of the Day' board at the top of the escalators.

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Actor's dream

February 28, 2012
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Would you like to hear about the Actor's Dream? No, I don't mean to win an Oscar; I mean the kind of dream that is close to a nightmare...

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More punctuation

February 27, 2012

I've had a couple readers of this blog express an interest in what I had to say about rhetorical and grammatical punctuation, so I thought I'd offer a bit more on the theme.

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Can life get any better?

February 21, 2012
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Sunday was perfect weather for sailing: blue skies, cotton wool clouds and a fair north westerly that took me and my boat down river with a journalist and photographer from Yachting Monthly.

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Flying high

February 17, 2012
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Ariel went aerial. Last night a bunch of us went off to Circus Space in Hoxton to be hung.

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Just so damned good

February 16, 2012
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On Sunday my wife, my daughter and I went the V&A for a screening of their archival filming of Cardenio from last season.

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