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Opera – i’m finding out – is often a bit mad
As I’m researching ‘Dido and Aeneas’ – which I’m hoping will be my first, and not my last foray into opera – I’m discovering a world that’s a bit bonkers…but visually often ridiculously spectacular....
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Edward Gordon Craig – Dido and Aeneas
On the Art of Theatre – Gordon Craig Gordon Craig – Scenography International Edited collective comment from Y12 Edward Gordon Craig deserves to be respected and paid homage to as he was key to the...
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How we made Les Misérables
The producer, Cameron Mackintosh, and librettist of the original 1985 show, Herbert Kretzmer, recall an adventure that began in a canoe surrounded by crocodiles, and ended with an all-night writing...
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How to succeed at auditions
Every performer has a horror story about auditions – a bullying director, falling over, not having done their homework. But what’s the secret of nailing that part?...
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Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best
“We were sitting one day and Caryl said: ‘I want to have overlapping dialogue.’ And I said: ‘Oh, my God, how are we going to do that?’ And we worked it out, using a forward slash, and even put a little...
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Set Design – Handy Tips. Well – Scenic Art to be precise
Scenic art Scenic art describes the painted backdrops, murals and other created elements of a set. Scenic artists work with set designers, and are responsible for translating their vision into reality....
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I think it’s all about versitility – and Sheridan Smith is the woman of the...
“Like many gifted actors, she pulls off the apparently impossible: she makes detail dominate the stage,” HEDDA GABLER LEGALLY BLONDE RUDY/SMITHY IN GAVIN AND STACEY TALKING ABOUT DUSTIN AND QUARTET...
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Just in time for your TPPP!! QUICK!
Five of the best video talks on theatre “As a society we are loosing our presence…if you are not able to get present you cannot succeed”....
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Thinking of going to Drama School?
This is a good one – and they have some REALLY useful videos on the youtube on all sorts – some good ones on voice and Mr Shakespeare http://www.youtube.com/user/guildhallschool?feature=watch
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The Wooster Group
A great explanation of why they do what they do, in the way that they do it
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Thinking about your RI – thought about Cabaret??? (& Brecht of course)
Lisa Appignanesi presents the cultural history of cabaret. Cabaret found joyful expression in Berlin in the 1920s and ’30s but its roots go back to Chat Noir in Paris in the 1880s. Lisa Appignanesi is...
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Was Artaud a bit Jacobean? I think so.
Thinking about Artaud and one of my favourite plays The Changeling… The Theatre of Cruelty’s advantage as a stylistic genre is that it allows pre-existing existing plays to be considered in a new, and...
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Drama what urgy?
Reblogged from The IB Theatre Reading Room: 3 Dramaturgs talk about what they do USEFUL LINKS http://playwrightsfoundation.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-with-top-dramaturg.html...
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Little Bulb
Little Bulb Theatre is an award-winning national touring company based in the South East of England. We are committed to developing devised and physical theatre performances which explore and...
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FAB resource – loads of videos from the National Theatre (UK)
http://video.nt-online.org/finalcut/video_exports/WebM/batb_devisingworkshops-960×540.webm http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/backstage/videos
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Which world theatre practices have influenced this viral video?
Answers on the back of a postcard please. Or just in the comment box below.
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What Shakespeare really sounded like
What Shakespeare really sounded like – linguists reconstruct a 400-year-old accent to remarkable results.
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Bertolt Brecht: irresistible force or forgotten chapter in theatrical history?
Brecht’s belief that drama should present moral ideas through action is unfashionable, but as theatre becomes ever more narcissistic, audiences are seeking him out again Bertolt Brecht: irresistible...
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We are doing this next year
Celebrating Joan Littlewood: it’s time to build her fun palaces The trailblazing director wanted to create cultural spaces across the UK. In 2014, her centenary year, you can make it happen Hats off to...
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