Brain-fried. Churned out two essays that were due today and I am mentally exhausted. Seriously. It was like after submission my brain went zonked and I spaced out. Saw people playing carom and ping pong (which is highly addictive by the way, even as a spectator) but I was completely…spaced out. Blank. Empty. Bare. Vacuous. Stoned. [...]

The Old Vic: Speed-The-Plow by David Mamet Director: Matthew Warchus Bobby Gould: Jeff Goldblum Charlie Fox: Kevin Spacey Karen: Laura Michelle Kelly Speed-The-Plow is a fast-paced, hard-hitting show about the nature of Hollywood screen writers in the usual David Mamet take-no-prisoners style. To be honest, despite the big names (Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum) this is probably one of my [...]

Comedy Theatre: The Lover / The Collection by Harold Pinter Director: Jamie Lloyd The Lover Richard: Richard Coyle Sarah: Gina McKee John: Charlie Cox The Collection Harry: Timothy West James: Richard Coyle Stella: Gina McKee Bill: Charlie Cox Having previously stage managed Harold Pinter’s The Lover (along with The Betrayal) in school; I was very excited to see a professional cast do the same show. Luckily, [...]

National Theatre: Happy Now by Lucinda Coxon (World Premiere) Director: Thea Sharrock Michael: Stanley Townsend Kitty: Olivia Williams Johnny, Kitty’s husband: Jonathan Cullen Miles: Dominic Rowan Bea, Miles wife: Emily Joyce June, Kitty’s mother: Anne Reid I went to see Happy Now with my mother while she was visiting me in London. We were very lucky to get the last two available tickets, [...]

The hour we knew nothing of each other by Peter Handke at The National Theatre Director: James MacDonald There were 27 actors in the hour we knew nothing of each other playing 450 characters. A remarkable feat in itself, but what had really inflamed my curiosity was that this play, written by a “great experimental figure [...]

We have two more weeks to bring together our Solo Story Project. For our Solo Story we each have to pick a story from our lives that caused a life changing moment and find a creative way to tell it in about 5 to 7 minutes. Here is my story: “I was 16 the first time my parents [...]

For our scene study project this term we are working through scenes from After Miss Julie by Patrick Mauber (author of Closer and Dealer’s Choice). A rewrite of Strinberg’s Miss Julie,  and relocated from 1888 to 1945, Mauber’s After Miss Julie, like the original is about sexual power struggle played out between Miss Jullie, daughter to [...]

One of the big projects this term is a cut down version, about an hour and forty minutes, of Anton Chekovs The Cherry Orchard. Synopsis: After five years abroad Madame Luyba Ravneskaya returns to her family estate, only to find that it is up for auction due to her large amount of debt. There she reunites with her [...]

 The National Theatre’s Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Director: Nicholas Hytner Benedick : Simon Russell Beale Beatrice : Zoë Wanamaker Hero : Susannah Fielding Claudio : Daniel Hawksford This version was well worth the wait. I had to stalk the theatre in order to get a seat! I was very lucky to get a student cancelation ticket (the last [...]

Exams have yet to start and I’m already partying. Incredible. But then again, that’s me. A rebel at the worst possible times ever. Tsk. And what initially began with the intention to blog about my fabulous social life *snorts*, yours truly merely got lazy and is simply gonna blog about two things she went for [...]