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The natural condition

25 Thursday Nov 2021

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dress rehearsal, Noises Off, Opening Night, Philip Henslowe, Shakespeare in Love, stage superstitions, theatre

Us – after dress. Or tech. Or whatever it was.

So the play opens tomorrow night.

We had dress rehearsals, last night – or perhaps not quite… I mean it in that Noises-Offish way, you know: if this is tech, when do we do dress? And if this is dress, when do we do tech?

Yes, well… Continue reading →

A strange December

03 Thursday Dec 2020

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Charles Dickens, closed theatres, Covid, December, Opening Night

December again…

Had things been different – had things been normal – I’d be going through the backstage routine for the umpteenth time with the newest recruit of the Quick Change Team (whoever she or he might be), getting ready for tonight’s dress rehearsals of a Christmas Carol, discussing our Scrooge’s foibles – and perhaps trying on my own costume for Ruth Grimshaw in the prologue… All the while, also getting ready for our new big play – my own Verne adaptation, to open on New Year’s Eve.  Also, Gemma and the good old Squirrels would be doing my Christmas Triptych on the 17th – so, even without being directly and officially involved in the production, more preparations… Continue reading →

Oh my ears and whiskers…

12 Thursday Oct 2017

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Carlo Emilio Gadda, Dress Rehearsals, Opening Night, The last hectic week, theatre

I’m late – sorry, sorry, sorry! It’s not that I forgot to post, but…

Frantic days, hectic week. We’re debuting Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de Via Merulana (That Awful Mess on Via Merulana) on Saturday, and we have dress rehearsal in little more than an hour, and everything – but everything – has happened, ranging from the hilarious to the highly depressing, so much so that we weren’t even quite sure we could début at all until the other day, and is this ever a run-on sentence! Continue reading →

Stage Blood: the mysteries of Ngaio Marsh

18 Thursday Aug 2016

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Death at the Dolphin, Light Thickens, mysteries, Ngaio Marsh, Opening Night, theatre

Ngaio_Marsh_by_Henry_Herbert_Clifford_ca_1935,_cropSome – or perhaps most – books one reads for the sake of what it say on the tin – algebra text-books for the sake of algebra, romance novels to enjoy a love story… Then there are those books one reads for… something else.

Take for instance Ngaio Marsh’s mysteries. Continue reading →

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