Blogs dated February 2012

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...

by Nick Day  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

The final understudy run

February 28, 2012
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We came. We saw. We understudied.

by Laura Darrall  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

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.

by Nick Day  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

WEEK 7: WELCOME TO EPHESUS

February 25, 2012
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Director Nizar Zuabi is setting The Comedy of Errors in a Mediterranean smugglers' town. In our version of Ephesus, the weather is hot, doors are always open, news travels fast, and trouble travels faster. Instead of what he calls the 'shame culture' of Britain, Nizar wants the play to be set in the 'honour culture' of the Middle East.

by Ankur Bahl  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

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.

by Nick Day  |  1 comment  |  Read this entry

Week 6: Body Parts

February 20, 2012
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During the run of Twelfth Night, Nick Day, who plays Sir Toby Belch, lost his trousers.

by Ankur Bahl  |  2 comments  |  Read this entry

Job 3 - Turn up for First Day of Rehearsals at least 15 minutes early

February 17, 2012
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We started rehearsals with a meet and greet and then got stuck in to our first two weeks of workshop: improvisations, games, team-buliding exercises, etc.

by Sophie Ivatts  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

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.

by Nick Day  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Preparations

February 16, 2012
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In the run-up to Christmas I head down to the British Library. It takes them some convincing of my worthiness of a permanent reader's card, and in the end I have to bring out the secret weapon (RSC headed note paper).

by Sophie Ivatts  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

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.

by Nick Day  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

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