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| So I want you to be walking and talking at the same time if possible |
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| Sorry Fran - did you say walk and talk? at the same time? |
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Trinity 8 October 2011
Saturday, 8 October 2011
The end of the beginning
Sirrahs!
Rehearsing today at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, on the blooming stage and the Masonic Hall tomorrow.
The rehearsal regime has broadly divided into three eras; we had our text and movement workshops (1) followed by our staging rehearsals (2) [an era which nears its end with the work at the Trinity today and Masonic Hall tomorrow] - the final era will be an energy sapping slog of run after run after run of selected Acts and of course the full play as we move into the home straight toward October 18th and curtain up. As a cast member I have a certain bias but I'd venture to say this will be a theatre experience par excellence for those who are wise enough to part with their hard earned cash, there will come a day when grandchildren will ask "Nan, where were you when the Trinity Theatre Group done that King Lear" - you can bark "Know you no reverance! ..... ya little sod .... I was in row F, I think some of the King's spit landed on my cheek....".
Apropos of nothing here's a link to a Guardian article looking at a selection of actors who've played Lear. Interesting for me that Sir Ian Mckellen played Kent to Brian Cox's Lear before himself going on to play the lead. I was going to upload the pictures direct to the blog but then got the yips fearing the photo police might descend from the sky and gouge out my eyes for copyright infringment. THUS
Thanks to the Guardian Newspaper for its sterling work with the article, its compilation has nothing to do with me or this website and I claim no credit for its brilliance, in fact the Guardian Newspaper should be applauded for its lone role in compiling the..... (yawn, geddonwithit.... Ed)
fare thee well, friends
Kent (Earl of)
Rehearsing today at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, on the blooming stage and the Masonic Hall tomorrow.
The rehearsal regime has broadly divided into three eras; we had our text and movement workshops (1) followed by our staging rehearsals (2) [an era which nears its end with the work at the Trinity today and Masonic Hall tomorrow] - the final era will be an energy sapping slog of run after run after run of selected Acts and of course the full play as we move into the home straight toward October 18th and curtain up. As a cast member I have a certain bias but I'd venture to say this will be a theatre experience par excellence for those who are wise enough to part with their hard earned cash, there will come a day when grandchildren will ask "Nan, where were you when the Trinity Theatre Group done that King Lear" - you can bark "Know you no reverance! ..... ya little sod .... I was in row F, I think some of the King's spit landed on my cheek....".
Apropos of nothing here's a link to a Guardian article looking at a selection of actors who've played Lear. Interesting for me that Sir Ian Mckellen played Kent to Brian Cox's Lear before himself going on to play the lead. I was going to upload the pictures direct to the blog but then got the yips fearing the photo police might descend from the sky and gouge out my eyes for copyright infringment. THUS
Thanks to the Guardian Newspaper for its sterling work with the article, its compilation has nothing to do with me or this website and I claim no credit for its brilliance, in fact the Guardian Newspaper should be applauded for its lone role in compiling the..... (yawn, geddonwithit.... Ed)
fare thee well, friends
Kent (Earl of)
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Sad or mad....?
The drama intensifies....fools speak wisdom and the blind see....Shakespeare or Beckett......?
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Juicy!
Hurrah! Last night's rehearsal was a meaty one for Goneril. It's a little roller coaster of emotions for my ladyship in Act 4 sc2. There's passion flowing and plenty of it - one minute clasped in the hot embrace of the naughty but alluring bastard Edmund and the next running headlong into a full-on row with hubby, Albany. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it!
Le Petit Mort...
Without wishing to terrify my worthy thesps, I realise that we open two weeks today….if the play was in three acts, we’d be laughing, but there are another two to rehearse…I could just stop there, but feel I need to give directorial words of encouragement. Actually, everyone is doing marvellously and I’m impressed with the way the cast can ad lib in Shakespearian speech when the real text eludes them – although I’m not sure the man himself would ever have written ‘bollocks, what comes next....don’t tell me, don’t tell me…’
Talking of the male anatomy, I seem to have spent most of yesterday’s rehearsal working out how to grab Albany’s you know whats without doing him permanent damage….it’s amazing how much lewd behaviour you can shoehorn into a tragedy….sex…violence…death…not to mention gobbetts of gore and blood.We also had a great snogging scene, which I had to run again...and again...and again...not sure what Oswald thought, standing there having to watch it all - his expression of distaste as he discretely turned away said it all.
Only a few more deaths to go, and we’re on to ‘Howl Howl Howl’……get your hankies ready and weep.
Monday, 3 October 2011
Blooper - Coronets parting twixt themselves (the pearls flee the crown as Michael hurls it to the floor), Jenny McQueen with a smart homage to Buck's Fizz (or Kenny Everett! for my older compadres) .... and Ali Fielding effortlessly rescues the scene with beauty, grace and David Blaine-like stagecraft
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