the stage

• wildest dreams From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (6 days old)

  quick update after the last post about auditions.i got the part i wanted - yippee! 'wildest dreams' is a very quirky play and i think the person with the most challenging role is whoever gets to play… more

• auditions From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (10 days old)

  auditions this afternoon for an alan ayckbourn play called 'wildest dreams'. it's a bit surreal and i really like it. it's about a teacher and his wife and the misfits who come to their house to e… more

• don giovanni From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (16 days old)

  i was listening to some of the music from this mozart opera recently and decided it was brilliant (which i am sure will be music to mozart's ears). then i started reading the story, and was reminde… more

• king lear - the movie From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (33 days old)

  i watched the 1971 movie version of the play, directed by grigori kozintsev, and based on an adaptation by boris pasternak, the novelist.it was a bleak, grey, almost brutal interpretation, using image… more

• king lear From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (34 days old)

  i read king lear all the way through at one sitting today,and got so involved i felt upset at the end. i think it was the bit where lear holds his dead daughter cordelia in his arms that got to me. … more

• Keep smiling From Melinda-solo in the stage (35 days old)

  Laura came round yesterday morning. ‘The show was great. You looked really happy, as though you were enjoying yourself!’ ‘I was!’ I’m not that good an actress. It’s a happy show. You have to look … more

• Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer From EllieGant in the stage (37 days old)

  My first opportunity to take part in a 'proper' play; previous appearances have been in musicals where I have tried my best to lurk at the back. It's proving to be terrific fun. If you don't know i… more

• scrooge From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (43 days old)

  my next part is a little gem - not many lines but lots of hamming up and wailing and moaning .... no it's not in eastenders. i'm playing jacob marley in the musical, scrooge, in the run up to christ… more

• On being a mistress From la_spice in the stage (56 days old)

  No I'm not posting this on the wrong blog - all is not as it might seem.:>> As I've mention before I have written a play called "For Better or Worse" which is being performed on Saturday 26th Septe… more

• cymbeline review From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (102 days old)

  theatre set-up (www.ts-u.co.uk) delivered a magical performance of cymbeline in the exotic surroundings of a botanic garden on the isle of wight last night.it was the perfect setting for their attempt… more

• cymbeline From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (108 days old)

  anyone ever seen or read this shakespeare play?? i ask because i am going to see an open air version of it later this week. well, i hope i actually do see it - because if it's raining, no doubt i wi… more

• Fame at last, eh Kev??? From Melinda-solo in the stage (113 days old)

  Hope you'll pop in on the Bedford leg of your World Tour. Love the new hirsute look, BTW ;) xx … more

• The Happening is Happening From la_spice in the stage (122 days old)

  A while ago I told you a little bit about a piece of interactive theatre that I've written and will soon be directing. Today I've successfully cast all the parts and it looks like it's finally going t… more

• striptease From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (128 days old)

  well, dearie me - not only do i have to learn a LOAD of lines for my next part ... i have to get me kit off too. but in a way, it's worse than a full monty - i have to strip down to a vest, undies a… more

• new part From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (143 days old)

  i won a part in a new play that opens in september - the biggest part yet. strangely enough the part is called percy. moving on ...! the play is 'rattle of a simple man' and i play the part of an i… more

• Take (T)hat From la_spice in the stage (149 days old)

  This is one outfit I didn't pack for Berlin Though I was tempted to take the hat along :>>… more

• landmark From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (153 days old)

  just wanted to let you know that the very next comment made on this fledgling group of ours, will be number ... ONE THOUSAND! i think we all deserve a round of applause, an encore, and a drunken… more

• a Midsummer Nights Dream - NOT as shakespeare intended From brokendownangel ^Pro in the stage (157 days old)

  Well obviously I have no idea what was in the great man's mind when he wrote about fairies and humans and the fun and games that could be had in the middle of the night. I don't, however, believe he … more

• king lear From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (157 days old)

  probably the original 'power play' - an amazing story full of amazing language and imagery, and, of course, madness ... and what has been billed as the bleakest pentameter line shakespeare ever wrote… more

• rattle of a simple man From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (163 days old)

  anyone ever seen this play (which i think has been made into a movie, too)? i have just read it, and must say it has the potential to be absolutely brilliant on stage. but it does seem dated (writ… more

• last night and other stuff From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (164 days old)

  well, the two week run of alphabetical order is at an end.it was the last night, last night ... apparently, the theatre has been an average of 80 per cent full, which is very good.we've certainly all… more

• Thumbs Up! From la_spice in the stage (175 days old)

  Following on from yesterday. Just to let you know that the theatre group committee members were delighted with my presentation and have agreed that the "*happening" can take place (probably in Septemb… more

• A change of direction From la_spice in the stage (176 days old)

  Or perhaps that should be "What Spicey Did Next"? A while ago I mentioned that I'd written a two act interactive play. Tomorrow I am finally going to have lunch with two, or three, of the amateur t… more

• polonius From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (183 days old)

  who would have thought that polonius, in hamlet, would have a message for today's world leaders... and for us, of course.still, shakespeare has survived the test of time simply because his words still… more

• the programme From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (185 days old)

  the programme for the play wot i am in, is now being printed.we open a week on wednesday ... we've got another rehearsal this afternoon.then just four more before opening night. here's an extract fr… more

• countdown From kevinwilson ^Pro in the stage (196 days old)

  well as the clock ticks down to first night, we now move up to four rehearsals a week...that's wednesday, thursday, friday and sunday... for the next three weeks. then it will be five nights of perf… more

• Forgotten! From la_spice in the stage (200 days old)

  I've just been sorting through some old ring binders and came across a short (two scenes) sketch I wrote (in French!!!) a few years ago. I'd completely forgotten I'd written this and I don't think I h… more

• Review I Capuleti e i Montecchi*** From Violetta in the stage (205 days old)

  Royal Opera 7th April 2009 I do wonder, I confess, occasionally, whether those great singers, famed for their most illustrious, and prodigious, of talents, are, in truth, as significantly endowe… more

• Review: LA BOHEME*** From Violetta in the stage (205 days old)

  English National Opera 4th March 2009 It is impossible, not, to enjoy an opera of such splendour, at least, to some degree. But I must, sadly, admit, to the most unalloyed, of disappointments, t… more

• After Miss Julie From TheCallGirl in the stage (207 days old)

  I love all things theatre and am doing a production of Patrick Marber's 'After Miss Julie' next tuesday, has anyone seen/heard of/been in it? I'm playing Miss Julie (yay!) and am currently trying to … more

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