Blogs by Nick Day

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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Hanging around

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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Fear of failure

February 14, 2012
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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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Is bard craft hard graft?

February 7, 2012
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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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Heading for the summit

February 6, 2012
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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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Punctuation

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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Juggling pots on the stove

January 20, 2012
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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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Running with it

January 19, 2012
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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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The desire to express

January 12, 2012

Two blogs in as many days? I'd actually like to settle down with a book, but can't suppress the desire to express.

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