Cabaret

That Triple-Threat Thing

14 March, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Image by Dramagirl via Flickr Sing, dance, and act … if you can do these equally well, you’re a triple threat according to show biz jargon. Well I’ve long known I’m an actor first and foremost. I love music and singing and always have. We’ll pass over the dance part. So here I am in

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret, jingju, triple-threat

Week 5: How can that be!

12 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

There’s a definite sense of autumn in the air which means we are getting mighty close to production time! Last 4-day weekend’s rehearsal period saw our doughty director and the creative team work their way through the mind-numbing exercise known as directing a crowd scene. Perhaps not so much mind numbing as shredding. There were

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Whoa! The first run-through? Already?

4 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: Jeremy Brooks Now time goes fast when you are enjoying yourself. We all know this. But to get an schedule standby for a first run-through makes you realise how fast time is really running. In the world of the theatre this call tends to bring on gentle hyper-ventilation and semi-moist palms. Yes, our

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

Week 4: Slow and Steady and Dorothy Parker

2 March, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Another weekend of rehearsals, but sporadic for me. It feels a little like shooting a movie; short bursts and a bit out of sequence, as well as disconnected from previous work. It’s a function of how we’re working on the show. The current schedule is Thursdays through Mondays for the creative team heads. However, as

Asides, Cabaret, costumes, Dorothy Parker, rehearsals

Week 3: Rehearsals, trust and the feel-goods

23 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: ghostdad On we go inching our way through the text … another rehearsal another song, another movement routine … not quite dancing. A bit of a relief really. I’ve not been blessed with feet touched by Terpsichore. So you think you can dance? Nope, not this gal. Not fair because I love it

Asides, Cabaret, effort, endorphins, rehearsals, stress, well-being, workout

Week 2: Into the Tough Stuff

17 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

The end of another week of rehearsals. We continue working through the play, scene by scene, beat by beat developing character and relationships, exploring blocking, action and reaction. All this is familiar territory for a dramatic actor. But of course, this is a musical … enter choreography and singing calls, and it becomes tough stuff

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret

The Clayton’s Rehearsal

13 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

The title of this post may mean something to readers (or drinkers) of a certain age. Once upon a time, there was a non-alcoholic mixer beverage called Clayton’s. To avoid having to go down a diversionary rathole to explain, you can read all about it here on Wikipedia if you like. Suffice it to say

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret, rehearsal

Rehearsals begin: workshops, complicité, and creativity

10 February, 2008
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Posted by Kate Foy

Saturday was a bonding day, a day when the acting company came together to work for the first time on the stage. The Director’s approach to this production has consistently been to point us towards the notion of the reality of the historical events surrounding this play, and the impact those events had upon the

Acting Notes, Actors and Acting, Cabaret, rehearsal, theatre

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” or trying to sound like it.

8 February, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

I had my first accent coaching session with a German colleague yesterday. She’s a native of Berlin, teaches German language at university here in Australia, but has been immersed in an English-sounding world for around 10 years or so. As a result of this, I had to ask her to work at strengthening her German

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Studying a Text: ideas, lines, sounds

4 February, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

There are probably almost as many ways of learning a script as there are actors. For me, and right now starting rehearsals for a new show it’s read, read, read the script, getting the sense of the arc of the story and my character’s role in telling it. I think it’s Anthony Hopkins who

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That Triple-Threat Thing

Week 5: How can that be!

Whoa! The first run-through? Already?

Week 4: Slow and Steady and Dorothy Parker

Week 3: Rehearsals, trust and the feel-goods

Week 2: Into the Tough Stuff

The Clayton’s Rehearsal

Rehearsals begin: workshops, complicité, and creativity

“Ich bin ein Berliner!” or trying to sound like it.

Studying a Text: ideas, lines, sounds