rehearsal

Tosca’s Kiss

4 January, 2016
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Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Week 2 begins with no calls in the rehearsal room for me today. Work on the role doesn’t stop, of course; there’s homework to do – always homework when becoming absorbed in preparing a performance. This afternoon I watched an extraordinarily moving documentary on Casa di Riposa – a home in Milan – endowed by the great

qtcQuartet, rehearsal

On the job on the iPad: learning lines

18 May, 2011
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Casebook, Technology and Creativity
Posted by Kate Foy

My role in the Empire Theatre Projects’ Company production of Secret Bridesmaids’ Business is a first in one respect. It’s the first on which I’ve gone entirely digital for script markup and lines-learning. I’m using my iPad 1.0. My apps of choice in the process have been Good Reader ($) and Rehearsal 2.0 ($) It’s

IPad, rehearsal

Emerging … again

27 April, 2011
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Actors and Acting, Casebook, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

As months go, March was rather special. It marked the ending of a significant period in my life’s adventures. I ended my tenure as Chairman of the Board at Queensland Theatre Company. Despite one or two little pangs, it felt absolutely right to be going now after nearly 8 years in the job and two

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Working on text – the early phase of rehearsal

11 March, 2009
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Actors and Acting, Productions, Voice and Text
Posted by Kate Foy

Upfront – this is an out of the archive post reworked a year or so on. If you’re a regular here you may have already read my rehearsal and performance blog posts for the Empire Theatre’s 2008 production of Cabaret directed by Lewis Jones. I played the role of Fraulein Schneider. You can find these

Acting Notes, Cabaret, rehearsal, text analysis

More on that ‘moment’ we’re supposed to be in …

16 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting
Posted by Kate Foy

I’ve written before about one of those phrases tossed round by acting folk: being in the moment. I recall the brilliant Dawn French using it in that sweet comedy series The Vicar of Dibley. ‘Geraldine’ was directing the parish’s nativity play. She’d dropped her vicarly garb, and was dressed in requisite directorial kit. All was

Acting Notes, Actors and Acting, Asides, Cabaret, characterisation, creative process, interior monologue, rehearsal, subtext

Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

8 April, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

photo credit: fluzwup A night off from rehearsals but valuable nonetheless; the cast were called for the program photo shoot. It was a chance for us to see one another for the first time in costume, and to realise how powerful a role the element of body adornment plays in visual story-telling. Body-masking is the

Acting Notes, Asides, body-masking, Cabaret, Costume, rehearsal

The Clayton’s Rehearsal

13 February, 2008
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Actors and Acting, Productions
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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Actors and Acting, Productions
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

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Tosca’s Kiss

On the job on the iPad: learning lines

Emerging … again

Working on text – the early phase of rehearsal

More on that ‘moment’ we’re supposed to be in …

Photo shoot, make-up and corsets!

The Clayton’s Rehearsal

Rehearsals begin: workshops, complicité, and creativity