Marginalia – Page 123

Clayton’s Won’t Do!

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

OK, the rehearsal you’re having when you’re not having a rehearsal … more than a week away from the last rehearsals and I’m getting twitchy. Damn this bug! It gets in your system, you have to keep working away at it. So, yesterday trying to keep in the groove by reading the script, imaging the

Cabaret

Another Night in the Theatre … but O, what a night!

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

Those of us who spend our lives working in theatre are used to the disappointments that come all too often it can seem. One production somewhere is OK, or doesn’t work … quite, despite the best efforts of all concerned; we forgive and perhaps forget. Another somewhere else can be plain awful … and at

QTC, Reviews

Getting up close and personal

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

There comes a time in rehearsals when the director wants to go in close to a piece of text and refine things with the actors. Sometimes it’s because moments or a whole scene are not working as well as they might. Characters may have become becalmed and need a fresh injection of energy. Tonight was

Acting Notes, Asides, Cabaret