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The Sign of a Good Day to Come

I’ve found a sweet, quiet way to gently wake the sleeping synapses each morning. It’s a daily shot of Sudoku to accompany the pot of plunger coffee that starts my day. If I can get two games in a row right first time, I know I’m ready for anything. I then know my attention is

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Getting People to Talk: Interviews

The blog for Shakespeare in Queens Park Festival (SiQP) which I’ve been keeping for a couple of years now has an addition: interviews with some of the key artists, creatives, and technicians. It’s been fun talking to them. What surprised me was that I didn’t have to prod them to reveal all. Once they got going,

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Girding the loins

I spent yesterday afternoon watching a run-through of a play for which I am voice coach. After the run I had dinner with one of the actors, and we talked less about the run-through, and more about the approach to prepping the body and mind for the act of artistic-athleticism, aka stage performance. Pacing across the

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