Marginalia – Page 10

Week 6: Tech, dress, and finger tingles

31 January, 2016
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Where do I begin … So much has happened since the time, earlier this week, when I wrote about leaving the safety and comfort of our rehearsal room. It’s involved the scary but necessary transitioning of an organism – the living, breathing, moving play – into a new space. In fact, it’s an evolution of sorts. And

Andrea Moor, Catarina Hebbard, Melissa Agnew, QTC

Backstage Rhythm

31 January, 2016
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Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

There’s another kind of orchestration happening in the backstage area. It has a rhythm of its own, conducted by the Stage Manager, and one never heard out front. I sit waiting in the wings during tech rehearsals and listen to the sounds around me – music and sound effects, the gentle rumble of stage machinery,

Giuseppe Verdi, Peter Sutherland, Stage management, technical rehearsals, Tony Brumpton

Goodbye rehearsal room … hello theatre

26 January, 2016
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Actors and Acting, Productions
Posted by Kate Foy

Yesterday we said goodbye to Rehearsal Room 1 at Queensland Theatre Company. It’s been our cosy playroom since just after Christmas when we came together to begin work on QUARTET. It’s into the Playhouse at QPAC tomorrow and the start of tech week. This means getting used to a new space; those green (Act 1) and

qtcQuartet, rehearsals