Opening Night: Earthquakes

Stephen Redwood Plays, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Leave a Comment

Yep it’s an opening night selfie from onstage. There’s an audience sitting just out of shot. We are supposed to do it, honest! As a passerby on Waterloo Bridge, Director Mark Thomson commenting on the rise of filming terrible events as a first reaction. This scene is when Freya is about to jump off and the passerbys film what’s going …

The Rumblings of Earthquakes

Stephen Redwood Plays, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Theatre Leave a Comment

Earthquakes rehearsals started today. I’ve got the usual jitters of starting rehearsals. It’s like eating loads of chocolate the night before and not being able to sleep, kind of Christmas Day excitement.  This is a complicated show! There’s something like seventy characters and most of us are swapping and changing all over the place. Not only that, there’s loads of …

Kidnapped

Stephen Redwood Plays, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Theatre Leave a Comment

I have finished working on Kidnapped with Graham McLaren, a exploratory harness flying show. It has been a rollercoaster of an experience. Not least, the twice daily workouts, warm-ups and stretching sessions, and then somehow creating a high-octane show full of stunts and spectacle. I have more muscle than usual, and far more physicality than I would usually have. It’s …

Mendelssohn’s Midsummer

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I’m currently rehearsing for a concert with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In it, I am playing Puck – but with a slightly different twist! It’s been great fun working on the script with Charlotte Dreissler, Laurie Scott, Catherine Barr and Tim Pollack. Jennifer Dick has been directing us, and we’ve been exploring the …

As You Like It

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I’ve just finished a run of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which went really well. I played Le Beau, Amiens and William, as well as a goat and a sheep. (I’m getting a reputation for playing animals, I know!) It was directed by Peter Collins, designed by Kirstin Rodger and John …