The first RSC productions in the World Shakespeare Festival are three plays cast from one acting company, looking at migration, exile, and the discovery of brave new worlds. Actors Nick Day and Ankur Bahl share their experiences in rehearsal for The Tempest, Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors.
Nick has beached on the shores of the RSC for the fifth time. Having drifted about in a variety of theatre, TV and film roles over 40 years the winds and tides have given him good passage into our waters a little more often lately. He loves it here and has absolutely no desire to be taken off this magic isle.
After spending his youth on the international jump rope circuit, Ankur arrived in Britain six years ago as a postgraduate studying migration and diaspora. Shipwrecked in London, he began performing in theatre pieces about the people he was studying.
February 17, 2012
Ariel went aerial. Last night a bunch of us went off to Circus Space in Hoxton to be hung.
by Nick Day
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February 16, 2012
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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February 14, 2012
There are people in Christchurch, New Zealand, whose homes and lives are still wrecked. There are young men being blown to bits in Afghanistan. So I feel a bit silly when after a scene goes badly in a Clapham rehearsal room I feel like running out of the building and into the traffic.
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February 8, 2012
We spent the last rehearsal of the day playing poker — a character improvisation led by Assistant Director Jamie Rocha.
by Ankur Bahl
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February 7, 2012
Yesterday we ran half of Twelfth Night. Unfortunately one of the cast was not there. It's tricky when someone is reading in, because the rhythms and the established teamwork kind of fall apart.
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February 6, 2012
The pressure is building a bit now. We have about eight days on each play now before we go to Stratford.
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February 3, 2012
In rehearsals for The Tempest the cast was split into two groups: the Europeans and the Islanders. We were then asked to come up with a list of words we associated with our group.
by Ankur Bahl
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January 24, 2012
I remember having a discussion with Patrick Marber as to whether there was, or was not, a comma in the middle of a particular short line in Dealer's Choice.
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January 20, 2012
I thought I should tell you a little bit more about the process. With these three plays to rehearse it's a bit like we're preparing a complex meal and juggling pots on the stove.
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January 19, 2012
Let's talk about Amie. And the hopes and chances for a young actor in the business today. The one never undiminished, and the other for ever contracting.
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