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Act Serious: March 2014
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Saturday, 29 March 2014. Back on the Boards. I trekked up to Stoke Newington earlier today. Only 20 minutes by bus from the end of my street, it's a neighbourhood which, like much of East and North London, is changing so rapidly that any description of it today is likely to be history tomorrow. Suffice it to say that yuppies and Turkish (Cypriot? I was at the Olive to meet Matt and Kellie, producers and writer-star and director respectively of A Man Who Lost His Mind. Links to this post. Stars in our eyes.
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Act Serious: October 2014
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014. Another day, another class - and Die Konsequenz. I was at my second improvisation class last night. My appreciation has gone up from last week's 5 out of 10 to 7. The acoustics in the church hall are still annoying but the class was more focused this time round and there was opportunity to perform in front of others and to see others perform. We began with the format of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? Does it look funny to you? The last exercise was the most rewarding - four of us i...
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Act Serious: Picture almost perfect
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Thursday, 7 August 2014. Three of us headed off to the Old Red Lion in Islington last night to see C J Wilmann's The Picture of John Gray. A bit of background to start with - John Gray was the strikingly handsome youth with whom Oscar Wilde had an intense relationship with before Wilde met his nemesis, Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie"). Gray was supposedly the inspiration for Wilde's notorious novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Throughout the play each of the actors shone; if I have to single out one for prai...
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Act Serious: April 2014
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Friday, 18 April 2014. He loves me not . . . Our next production opens in under three months and I'm busy working on the publicity. The first task is to put together a poster, which will form the basis of our leaflets and other advertising. This is the draft I've put together so far. (Yes, I'd far rather this was undertaken by a professional designer, but we're losing enough money as it is.). The tormented priest in Angel. The cantankerous writer in Now We Are Pope. Which means I am thinking of changing ...
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Act Serious: Well...
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Thursday, 23 October 2014. Yes, the city can look this beautiful, just not all the time. I'm once again a permanent resident of Edinburgh, the city I grew up in and left immediately after I graduated. Throughout the interim I have returned regularly to visit family, but otherwise my connections with the capital have long since faded; I no longer remember the names of streets that I once knew intimately and I lost contact with the last of my friends here long ago. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Anoth...
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Act Serious: Another day, another class - and Die Konsequenz
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014. Another day, another class - and Die Konsequenz. I was at my second improvisation class last night. My appreciation has gone up from last week's 5 out of 10 to 7. The acoustics in the church hall are still annoying but the class was more focused this time round and there was opportunity to perform in front of others and to see others perform. We began with the format of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? Does it look funny to you? The last exercise was the most rewarding - four of us i...
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POST #7: Oh, the irony… « I COULDN'T CAREer LESS
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I COULDN'T CAREer LESS. Job, schmob – I need a career…. POST #7: Oh, the irony…. But so they did. Is now 60,000 members strong and is one of the most successful creative agencies in the UK. Google “creative jobs” and they’re at the top of the list – one up from the Guardian which languishes in second place. That’s pretty damn good considering their entire office is barely bigger than my lounge, albeit a lot funkier. And what do they want me to do? The David Mitchell of, er…more blogs! 8221; way, followed...
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A Hectic Phase In The Life - Theatre Musings: REVIEW: After the Dance, National Theatre, 4 August
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Friday, 6 August 2010. REVIEW: After the Dance, National Theatre, 4 August. Some characters are really hard to empathise with. And Benedict Cumberbatch does a fine, almost surgical job with the lead man of After the Dance. Rattigan can be brilliant at times but the play lacked dramatic tension and momentum, which okay, I ended up believing it was all on purpose, very modern, or maybe I wanted to like this play so much (Mr.Cumberbatch! Again ( After the Dance. I want you to be on the stage all the time.
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A Hectic Phase In The Life - Theatre Musings: November 2009
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Sunday, 29 November 2009. Life is a Dream, Donmar Warehouse, 27 Nov 2009. It is a very good translation, too. The actors, I can guess less aware then some in the audience as to who or what was De la Barca, chose to deliver Edmunson's rich and gorgeous dialogue as if they were doing Shakespeare. That proved to be the right choice as well. Like most Shakespeare, Life is a Dream. With all the inherent flaws of the play, this is a production that makes good use of its virtues and it is also very Donmar-ish, ...
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