Whispers from the Wings

This is a diary of our productions, explaining what's happening through the rehearsal process. Our current bloggers are:

Bethan Walker

Bethan Walker  makes her debut at the RSC, playing Emilia and understudying Hermione and Perdita in The Winter's Tale. She is a passionate foodie, skiier and collector of vintage postcards, who hails from the beautiful beaches of Gower.

Thomas Pickles

Thomas Pickles  is from Lancashire. He's playing Simple in The Merry Wives of Windsor and a variety of characters in The Mouse and his Child. This is his first job since leaving drama school in September.

Youssef Kerkour

Youssef Kerkour  returns to the RSC after last year's Swan winter season. He is a 6'4'' British/Moroccan, and will be seen playing and understudying roles including Captain of the Guard in The Orphan of Zhao, Kurbsky in Boris Godunov, and the Philosopher in A Life of Galileo.

Much ado about the first week

June 28, 2012
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I'm gonna start this with an ethos. A mission statement, if you will. All the other (rather fab) blogs talk in length about the art of acting and an actor's trial and tribulations with The RSC.

by Muzz Khan  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Dark quotes

June 26, 2012
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Due to popular demand, my son. Looking at him, there are lots of rather dark quotes that spring to mind...

by Andrew French  |  4 comments  |  Read this entry

Caminando with the RSC: Acting in another language

June 25, 2012
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Week 4. This week we started polishing the scenes of the first act. Now the work became more precise and we entered deeper into the relationships between the characters.

by Andres Weiss  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Caminando with the RSC: On combat and dance

June 19, 2012
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On monday we finally got the revised script, more changes would come later on but we didn't know then. We continued blocking the scenes and we started working in the prologue, the rituals, and combat.

by Andres Weiss  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Names

June 19, 2012

In a review of Julius a scene that I am in (indeed, MY favourite scene) was noted as being perfect. Isn't that nice? They loved how it was played and pitched and I felt a brief spark of pride.

by Andrew French  |  4 comments  |  Read this entry

Reviews and a new member of the company

June 11, 2012

Sorry I have not been attending to your needs. I have been a little busy recently. More of that later.

by Andrew French  |  2 comments  |  Read this entry

Caminando with the RSC: The siege on Huexotla

June 8, 2012
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Second week. Maybe this is too English, but what a nice weather we had, the sun was shining, people were always on the streets and the whole town came to life.

by Andres Weiss  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Caminando with the RSC: Of hugs, and dances, and text

June 6, 2012
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Ok. First week of rehearsals. There was a lot of hugging involved.

by Andres Weiss  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Caminando with the RSC: Getting the part

May 29, 2012
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I'm a Mexican actor who was born in Germany, studied for a time in London and at the moment is working in the production A Soldier in Every Son with the RSC. I'm a full time member of the Mexican National Company of theatre.

by Andres Weiss  |  4 comments  |  Read this entry

Life after press night

May 24, 2012

Apologies again for my appalling cyber silence over the last few weeks! They have been manic to say the least!

by Sophie Ivatts  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

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