Find out more about the people and the companies performing at this year's summer season at The Dell, our free open air theatre.
Lily Watson
has just completed a three-year acting degree at the University of Northampton. Lily created the company Mechanicals Theatre with three fellow students and is excited about their first outdoor production.
Isabella James
has been a member of Playbox Theatre from age 13 and is also a part of the Shakespeare Young Company. This year will be their third Dell performance and they can't wait to create their contribution.
Michael Totton
graduated from East 15 Acting school in 2009. He will be playing Benedick in Shooting Stars Theatre Company's Much Ado About Nothing. This will be Michael's fourth year at The Dell.
July 31, 2012
We had our first few performances as part of the Henley Fringe. It went brilliantly. The show is in a really great place right now, especially after performing to an audience. We all seem to have relaxed into our roles and started to trust ourselves with the language and occasionally play around with certain bits.
by Michael Totton
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July 11, 2012
We have been ploughing through scenes in rehearsals and it is really coming together. I feel like I'm beginning to get a grasp on the character but I am very aware I'm still quite a long way off. My process has been helped thoroughly though by the quality of the cast members.
by Michael Totton
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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
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May 16, 2012
Michael graduated from East 15 Acting school in
2009 with a BA in Acting. This year he will be performing as Benedick in
Shooting Stars Theatre Company's UK Tour of Much Ado About Nothing. This will
be Michael's fourth year performing at The Dell having played Benvolio in Romeo
& Juliet, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dogberry in Much Ado
About Nothing.
by Michael Totton
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May 16, 2012
Hi, I'm Lily Watson and I'm a third year BA Acting student at The University of Northampton's School of The Arts. For the first blog I thought I'd give some general information about the piece we're doing and some of our ideas behind why we chose it.
by Lily Watson
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May 16, 2012
Rather controversially, The Shakespeare Young Company (SYC) have decided that instead of performing The Bard's work for this season's Dell, we will look at the writing of another great storyteller; Chaucer.
by Isabella James
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