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Booking a Tantie- End of Week Two

Posted by on Jul 17, 2010 in Blog | 1 comment

Time and Money…Time and money- we’ll just have to make it work with the Time that we have… This is what was going through my head a lot yesterday- while we were doing our first stagger-through of the play. The actors were doing really well in the scenes that we’ve rehearsed, it’s just that we need more time together as a full...

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July 15th- marching and cardboard

Posted by on Jul 16, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I mentioned last week that two of the challenges of making a piece of theatre in the current rehearsal process are our old chums/enemies time and money… Well, for the first time in almost two weeks of rehearsal we had everyone in the room at the same time- and I am compelled to write that it was delightful, truly delightful! and we enjoyed nearly an...

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July 14th- Choral work a go-go

Posted by on Jul 15, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

We worked a lot today on choral sections of the play- But we’ll be dressing the actors in The Sad and Cautionary Tale of Smackheaded Peter in contemporary clothes, rather than traditional Greek costumes. During the morning I remind myself a few times that conforming to choral work or ‘speaking with one voice’ can be challenging for many...

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Heroin and baby steps

Posted by on Jul 13, 2010 in Blog | 1 comment

Day One, Week 2 Slowly slowly, baby steps- That’s what I kept telling myself as we were working on the first two of three heroin hallucinations today. It’s a challenge to bring the experience of this drug coursing through someone’s veins into a theatre experience… One of the fascinating things about this play is that a couple of the...

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Sunday, July 11th- coiling the spring

Posted by on Jul 11, 2010 in Blog | 1 comment

We had a very good first week- hanging out in the world of Thamesmead and Smackheaded Peter. Here’s the welcome sign to Thamesmead in south-east London, England. Almost through the play for the first time- and lots of excellent investigation of the scenes, characters going on. I’ve had a super time working with everyone- and am looking forward...

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