February 25, 2011
It seems almost unbelievable, but we are starting our fourth week of rehearsals already. In the Cardenio rehearsal room, we are still mostly sitting around the table. Simon Callow in his book Being an Actor, describes this process beautifully, as we try to feel the play's aura, 'almost its force field.' It is a bit like sitting round a ouija board. The research we do is like lobbing a pebble into the collective pool of our unconscious and watching the ripples. Some research will be useful, some not so.
by Greg Doran
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February 17, 2011
I was so proud to have met such a dedicated and enthusiastic writer and I was buzzing from our conversation. It is unusual to meet a young writer so dedicated to creating poems and who would volunteer to spend a part of her weekend meeting a poet, writing a poem and talking about the writing process. It was a pleasure meeting her.
by Malika Booker
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February 15, 2011
I had never seen the stars, the fonts and colours, the lights and images quite the same way as I did then. It all hit me fast and hard and obviously. The language of the quotes and the language of the graphics are so base and unashamed and I was drawn into it.
by Henrik Potter
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February 14, 2011
Dyfan Dwyfor gives us the first peek behind the scenes as the Ensemble take up residency at the Roundhouse in London
by The Ensemble
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February 9, 2011
On Friday I went to the Charlie Ratchford Centre, a resource centre for Camden residents aged 60+ that is located just off Adelaide Road. Here's a poem I've written about the people I met and that I hope captures some of the spirit of the place.
by Aoife Mannix
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February 9, 2011
For this workshop, Aoife read participants my 'Prologue' poem and then asked the participants the following questions - if you were a road, what kind of a road would you be? If you were a map, what kind of map would you be?
by Adelaide Road Participants
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February 9, 2011
I blow past chilled blocks of question marks, their windows icy with the pause of December. The end of the year spinning from the thread of a crane. Blue hoarding boards blank with future graffiti snapshots.
by Aoife Mannix
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February 4, 2011
So finally, after weeks of meeting actors and negotiating with my fellow directors, I have a cast. There are 17 actors in Cardenio (12 men and 5 women). All of them are also in Massinger's The City Madam, which has another 5 actors making a company of twenty two altogether. And we all started on Monday, alongside the parallel company which is rehearsing Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice to open the new Main House.
by Greg Doran
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February 2, 2011
Visiting Stratford made me think about multiple dimensions within space and time and how these in turn could be created out of a flat piece of paper without folding it – which was the beginning of an idea for my print...
by Evguenia Jokhova
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