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Twelfth Night

Post 21

Pimms

Just to confirm: Claire/Viola is the (shorter) one with a purple tie? And that isn't her own hair? smiley - winkeye

smiley - coolsmiley - ta




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Post 22

Danny B

smiley - laugh

Yep - that's the one! And I'm steering well clear of any comments about Claire's hair... smiley - winkeye


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Post 23

Leo


You've done Pratchett? smiley - wow

Tres smiley - cool! smiley - ok

And break a leg.


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Post 24

Pimms

Are you or Claire in any of the other pictures on the link? I can't tell without a hint.


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Post 25

Danny B

Leo:

Stephen Briggs (the writer of the official Pratchett stage adaptations) is a member of our group, so we get to perform the 'world premieres' of the pratchet plays smiley - biggrin

Pimms:

Right - Under 'Wildest Dreams', Claire is the one wearing the gingham skirt playing with the toy car, and I'm the one in the stylish cardigan admiring a doll. Under 'Going Postal', I'm the one in the background behind the old man and the chap in the brown suit. Under 'School for Scandal', Claire is the one in the large reddish wig in the bottom two photos.


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Post 26

Pimms

smiley - ta Surprisingly difficult to recognise people when their hairstyle changes.
I was in a musical once (Return to the Forbidden Planet) where most of the female chorus wore identical shocking pink wigs and it was a struggle to identify some purely from their faces.

I think the Twelfth Night wig suits Claire. smiley - run

smiley - goodluck

(smiley - cool about your Pratchett/Briggs world premieres smiley - ok)


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Post 27

Lbclaire

smiley - yikes!!!

I think it makes me look like my mum, Pimms! Not that that's necessarily a terrible thing but I don't want to look like her JUST yet..

Thanks for the smiley - goodluck all. Last night's rehearsal went very well, we've sold a good number of tickets for tonight, and I'm looking forward to it. Quite nervous though - more so than usual, so I'll be on the Rescue Remedy. smiley - winkeye

smiley - smiley


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Post 28

Lbclaire

Well, it's all over. And it was the most fantastic thing I've ever done. smiley - smiley

Good audiences (better than we'd hoped), great feedback, and a real sense that everyone was giving all they'd got to make it a really special show. There were a few technical hitches, of course, including one rather scary moment when Orsino completely dried on me... smiley - yikes but on the whole it surpassed my expectations.

And it sounds really actorish, but I had a bit of a revelation in terms of my own acting too, which I intend to take into future roles.

I wasn't 100% health-wise throughout the run, had terrible indigestion most of the time (due to a combination of emotion and very tight elastic encasing my entire body from underarms to belly button), and on Saturday morning woke up to find my neck had gone again (I had a bad whiplash ten years ago and have regular chiropractic treatments). I begged the chiropractors for an emergency appointment and thank goodness, I got it. Although I was still in pain and had limited movement for the day, a combination of Ibuprofen and ice kept me going. I think the painkillers also contributed to me being in a very smiley - zen mood that day, contrary to my expectations, which resulted in (I think) two of the best and truest performances I've ever given.

So enough of the patting ourselves on the back... and onto the next one! We start again tonight, with a read-through for the next play, which has been written by one of our members.

smiley - smiley


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Post 29

Pimms

smiley - applause well done. Glad it went well and had good audiences.

smiley - goodluck with the neck.

I went to a play last Saturday with people in I knew from other productions (and surprisingly someone I'd met through work, who I had no idea was into drama). It was called Zack by Paul Brighouse (who wrote Hobson's Choice), written in the 1920s and suffered from creaking stereotypes. The audience was less than 100 in a theatre that seats 800. Bit disappointing, but the play was good.


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Post 30

Leo


How many performances was that? smiley - huh I mean, doesn't it feel weird to put in weeks of effort for only a performance or two?


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Post 31

Lbclaire

Hi Pimms,

Thanks smiley - smiley.

Shame about that play, but 800 seats is a hell of a lot to have to fill. At least in a 90-seat theatre, you get 40 or 50 in and it feels quite full (provided they all sit downstairs - you can't see the balcony in the lights).


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Post 32

Lbclaire

Hi Leo,

We did five performances - Wednesday to Saturday plus a matinee on the Saturday. No, it doesn't feel too odd only having a few performances after months of rehearsals, but I enjoy the rehearsals almost as much as the performances. The one thing you get in performance that you don't really get in rehearsals is feedback from the audience - laughter, gasps, etc.

I don't usually mind finishing a run, and am usually ready to go onto the next thing, but this time I really would have liked to have had a few more nights, I was loving it so much. But Saturday was a good day to finish on, as I don't think I could have brought much more to it than I did on that day.

smiley - smiley


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