March 2008

Week 9: Tightening the Wheel Nuts

by Kate Foy 30 March 2008

photo credit: mag3737
Saturday:
Goodness! Talk about feeling dazed and confused. This weekend was the first back after an Easter break, and 10 days away from the rehearsal room floor. To make matters worse, three of our company were absent; one on tour, and the others MIA. It was a difficult call given yesterday’s schedule which [...]

I Guess We Have a Show

by Kate Foy 27 March 2008

There it is for everyone to see on the side of the theatre building. Mmm … it’s real then!

Improvisational Magic: a TED Inspiration

by Kate Foy 26 March 2008

I often use improvisation with my students in acting classes. It is never entirely ‘free-form’ as is often thought. Improvisation bears fruit when allowed free rein within a ‘cage’ of understood rules … what we tend to call in acting the given circumstances or GCs … the who, where, when and what of a [...]

Clayton’s Won’t Do!

by Kate Foy 23 March 2008

OK, the rehearsal you’re having when you’re not having a rehearsal … more than a week away from the last rehearsals and I’m getting twitchy. Damn this bug! It gets in your system, you have to keep working away at it. So, yesterday trying to keep in the groove by reading the script, imaging the [...]

Another Night in the Theatre … but O, what a night!

by Kate Foy 19 March 2008

Those of us who spend our lives working in theatre are used to the disappointments that come all too often it can seem. One production somewhere is OK, or doesn’t work … quite, despite the best efforts of all concerned; we forgive and perhaps forget. Another somewhere else can be plain awful … and at [...]

Getting up close and personal

by Kate Foy 17 March 2008

There comes a time in rehearsals when the director wants to go in close to a piece of text and refine things with the actors. Sometimes it’s because moments or a whole scene are not working as well as they might. Characters may have become becalmed and need a fresh injection of energy. Tonight [...]

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