March 2010
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If it were done when ’tis done…
Monday 8th March
I appreciate that this week’s Macbeth quote isn’t ideal but I was running out of ideas and I had thought of calling this blog: “Duns-INSANE” as that’s what us soldier chorus lot had started to say when anything “crazy” happened. But I realise that inside jokes out of context are appreciated as much as Russell Brand in America, so I decided to keep with the theme.
Two days ago...
February 2010
4 posts
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Something wicked this way comes...
Thursday 25th February
Somehow, inexplicably, we have just over one week left of Dunsinane. And I’m pretty sure this is the longest run any of the soldier chorus has ever done, so it’s quite a marvel that we’ve found it to fly by. In fact, I think we’ll all be so gutted when it comes to an end that we may just have to hold fort in the Hampstead Theatre’s rehearsal room (our dressing room) until...
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow..
Hello there!
Tomorrow marks the end of previews and the odd event that is press night. I can’t remember who said this but, apparently, to look at the record of theatre history is really just to view one long list of press nights with the actual run and life of a play completely forgotten about. So in that vein, I’m just thinking about tomorrow as just another night in a run of many. But the one...
Out, damned spot!
Hey everyone, I’m Hauk - one of Tom’s fellow soldiers in Dunsinane. As Tom was saying in his last blog we’ve really been thrown in at the deep end. We’ve just finished our second preview and we’re still being given changes. I think the main thing we were unprepared for is the amount of dirt and blood we get covered in. Showers don’t seem to make a difference. Many of...
A drum, a drum! Dunsinane doth come.
Wednesday 3rd February Hello again! It’s the last week of rehearsals (opening night’s a week today!) and only the 6th day for the ensemble/soldier chorus, so we’ve really been chucked in the deep end. Over the past few days we’ve had to grapple with swordfights, physical tussles, being shot by arrows, playing Scottish lords, and some of us have even had to learn a little Gaelic and Ceilidh...
January 2010
2 posts
“In all honesty, plays like this don’t come around very often”
– Tom, on Dunsinane
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Fear not, till Tom Ross-Williams do come to...
A very nice lady called Fiona from the RSC came into the ensemble’s first rehearsal last Saturday and suggested the idea of a blog. Now, despite my wariness of up-to-date technological ways of communicating (I haven’t quite mastered tweeting yet), I thought I’d give it a go. So, having read the script and two rehearsals down the line I’m happy to report Dunsinane is going to be epic – set over a...