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A small catalogue of things we’d do without

06 Thursday Oct 2022

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Covid-19, debut, theatre

This is a landslide

Miss Imogen Ralph has the plague;

Miss Imogen Ralph’s understudy (who also sells oranges in Suez) has the plague;

The slipper-seller of Kholby has the plague; Continue reading →

The Puccini moment

02 Thursday Jun 2022

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drama school, La Bohème, Opera, Puccini, theatre

Last Sunday we had the second – and last – performance of the school play for the Third – and last – Course. It went really well, and I’m truly happy and proud of ‘my’ pupils and the work we’ve done together. The’re a fine group. I’ll miss them.

That said, of the whole hectic, glittering week, there is one moment that I want to remember, the sort of thing that, when it happens, makes you stop and think that “Oh, how book-like!” Continue reading →

Form and substance

06 Friday May 2022

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form and substance, shakespeare, technique, theatre, writing

It mostly comes in two flavours.

Flavour the first: now and then, when I hyperventilate over some (more or less) minute detail gone wrong in a play, a story, a talk, or whatnot, some sympathetic soul will try to convince me that it was a negligible hitch in the form – but the substance was there, and substance is what truly matters…

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A bit of panic – or, The Great Duck Mutiny

24 Thursday Mar 2022

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deadlines, Emma Darwin, overwhelm, rachel aaron, theatre, wordcount, writing

I didn’t post last week.

I found myself on Thursday morning with no post ready and no good idea… Continue reading →

The sparkling of purposeful chaos

17 Thursday Feb 2022

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directing, rehearsals, theatre

I went to the Tiny Theatre yesterday, for rehearsals.

Not a terribly peculiar occurrence in itself, I’ll admit: we are opening a new play next week, and the plague has wrought havoc on my cast, so it’s been a carousel of understudies, and Nina is away, so I’m also rehearsing things for her, and, starting tomorrow, we have a one-week reprise of an old play… Continue reading →

December, December…

02 Thursday Dec 2021

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novella in flash, the walsingham mysteries, theatre, writing

Once upon a time, December used to be a rather non-writing month, all given to Christmas preparations. Crafting ornaments and decorations, trimming trees, baking Lebkuchen, making the pudding, searching for presents, listening to carols… this sort of things.

I just believed – in all naive honesty – that there was no time to write in December… Continue reading →

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 →

Once more unto the stage…

05 Friday Nov 2021

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Amelia Earhart, Beatrice Noonan, Playing, theatre, understudy

The real-life Bea

Oh dear. Oh goodness me. Oh Spirit of the Bard…

I’m going to play again.

As in, on the stage. On the Tiny Theatre’s stage. Before an audience.

I’m going to play Bea. Continue reading →

The Clara Box

15 Friday Oct 2021

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alan ayckbourn, Books, brian friel, jules renard, ROH, Shakespeare's Globe, theatre

So they’ve been tidying up the Company’s extensive collection of books, plays and whatnots over the summer – and, as has become the case these past few years, everything and anything that isn’t in Italian has been set aside for me.

And I really mean anything: I once ended up with a book of plays in Serbian. Nobody had an inkling of when, how or, more relevantly, why on earth it had landed in the Company’s library – but, quite regardless, it went in the “Clara” box. That I don’t know a single word of Serbian didn’t seem to matter much. For the record, the book is still somewhere in my shelves – obviously unread but there… Continue reading →

It’s just like flying

24 Thursday Jun 2021

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Amelia Earhart, debut, play, theatre

And tonight we debut Il Rumore delle Ali – that is, The Sound of Wings – my own Amelia Earhart play, the one I’m co-directing together with Nina…

As usual, I want to emigrate to St. Helena, and the natural condition of theatre, and all that – but, for once, not really. We had dress rehearsals last night – well, tech rehearsals and then dress, in quick succession – and  it was all the tiniest tad Noisesoffish, in that I’d be hard put to say which was which – but in spite of that, it all went… dare I say it? No, I don’t, of course. One never does, for fear of jinxing things. Let us put it this way: when I say that I want to emigrate to St. Helena, I might be slightly overstating the case. Continue reading →

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