Good news
For those of you who know Tim Speyer - hurrah!
He has just become engaged to Rachel!
Much love to both!
For those of you who know Tim Speyer - hurrah!
George's Marvellous Medicine is going to Malta in three weeks. We've been told that most performances have already sold out. This is the first time a show for children has been staged in Malta.
The Arts Council have funded an artist to furnish a room in a gallery with nothing.
We've been nominated for awards twice this year and I'm not sure I like it. Effectively, a group of people nominate you for their award and then invite you to come to their ceremony so that they can tell you that you haven't won. They know you haven't won before they invite you, so why not cut to the chase: "you were nominated you for one of our awards but hey, you didn't win!". This seems more sensible and would cut down on catering.
Something I've often noticed: how little actors talk about the art of acting.
Something I've noticed a lot during the run of PROOF and after recent productions including COLLISION and THE RETURN: seeing the look of shock on people's faces after the show. People are startled that the show has connected with them so powerfully. I can only assume this is because people have got so used to being bored when they visit the theatre that they appear to be startled when they find themselves genuinely gripped or moved. (Even our shows for children generate the same reaction: KENSUKE'S KINGDOM often leaves the adults in tears. So many people have remarked on this that I can only guess it must be happening very rarely). When did theatre become so boring? I can't imagine people being bored in The Globe, so what has happened in the intervening 400 years?
What an extraordinary night. The last night of PROOF. Last nights are very rarely the best nights. In most cases, the actors tend to go a little awry with the emotion or push too strongly. Not tonight. The indomitable Sally Oliver, in the lead role, charted our course with the stoicism that has characterised her incredible voyage through this play. Instead of it going awry, tonight's performance was freshly and deeply felt.