As You Like It – a daily rehearsal and performance journey

by Kate Foy on 16 January, 2012

in Actors and Acting, Life Snippets, Production Casebook, Technology and Creativity

An image a day and a tweet or quote a day to sum up the passage of the next 10 weeks as I rehearse and perform in La Boite Theatre Company’s production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare. I get to play Duke Senior, father to Rosalind. This should be fun and a huge challenge – the best kind! Words probably won’t do it justice, so maybe an image or something brief and to the point that sums up the moment … Twitter is just fine for that.

If you’d like to drop by from time to time and see how things are going in my small neck of the Forest of Arden, please do so. The embedded frame (below) from my Tumblr will keep updating the mini rehearsal diary.

On the other hand, if you have one and like Tumblr, you could always follow me there: Leaves From the Forest -  saves coming all the way over here.

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Expressive Plus has retired … gracefully

by Kate Foy on 20 December, 2011

in Business and the Arts

Hello! Perhaps you’ve been redirected here from the former Expressive Plus site? If so, this is just a wee note to let you know that the proprietors have retired the site … for the time being.

As it happened, both of us were too busy to maintain the site in the way we wanted to, so the option seemed clear … close down and redirect. That’s why you are here. Groundling is Kate’s blog, one that ranges widely and will now include more content on presentation skills. You might care to Subscribe.

Thank you for your readership in the past. It has been a rare pleasure during the past three years to meet and to work with with so many people keen to improve their presentation skills.

With very best wishes

Kate Foy & Robert Ketton (Expressive Plus)

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Review: 11/22/63

22 November 2011

11/22/63 by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars A great read and enormously satisfying. As a time-travel devotee I enjoyed King’s intelligent handling of a complex conceit, one usually riven by plot improbabilities. Characterisation and narrative in 11.22.63 are top-drawer, and the recreation of period makes for a fascinating read. And, speaking of [...]

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Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars A wonderfully, fast-paced horror read. Joe Hill’s literary voice has echoes of his father’s – Stephen King – especially in the creation of singular characters and a seemingly ordinary world threaded through, or is that ‘invaded by’ the unthinkable and horribly persistent ‘other’ world [...]

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Review: Sacrifice

25 October 2011

Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fascinating introduction to the remote and, from what the writer indicates, beautiful and eerie Shetland Isles waaay up there north of Scotland. I’ve almost added them to the travel to-do list. The novel is a thriller that blends modern science with ancient folklore, power [...]

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Steve Jobs, my First Mac and how I became a geek

6 October 2011
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Steve Jobs died this morning aged 56. I learned about it via Twitter on my iMac. We knew it was coming probably sooner rather than later. He had been sick for years and, at each public appearance, was looking more and more gaunt. Still, when the news broke, it did come with a jolt. Within [...]

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