Blogs dated June 2012

Going on about food

June 29, 2012

All of us are missing home a little. Stratford is lovely (I would quite like to live here) but there is no place like home. So it is natural to try and find some comfort in food.

by Andrew French  |  2 comments  |  Read this entry

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

ToDos and diversions

June 25, 2012
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We opened our shows at the Roundhouse, so most days we can now get to grips with all the stuff that has been on our domestic ToDo lists since the beginning of the year.

by Nick Day  |  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

Much Ado About Meeting

June 13, 2012

So we had our first meeting as an entire cast.  It was really great to see everyone together and get a feel for how we were going to work as an ensemble.  We received the cuts for the script and had a few beers just to break the ice.  I hadn't really realised how many individual speeches Benedick had, which proved quite daunting as my highlighter started running out. 

by Michael Totton  |  No comments yet  |  Read this entry

Week 27: Playing Dromio(s)

June 12, 2012
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Today was my theatrical bar-mitzvah-by-fire. In a public understudy run I played Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus in the RST. I went from being the actor with the fewest lines in The Comedy of Errors to the one with the most.

by Ankur Bahl  |  13 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

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