Charlie
I’ve been directing a little one person piece these last few weeks, starring the lovely Victoria Chen. Charlie explores the meeting between an audience member (that’s you lucky people) and a young girl who has never left the building. With no concept of the outside world, you have to help her understand and process the reality of the world around her. …
The Rumblings of Earthquakes
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 …
The entire cast do McHugh’s inspired mix of salty-saucy humours proud
Mary Brennan, Scotland Herald
Kidnapped
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
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
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 …
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