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Embracing your younger self and other acts of forgiveness

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Blair Williams in Rehearsals

Embracing your younger self and other acts of forgiveness

We started the day today with notes. Typically, this would involve the director giving us the notes from the preceding run – things that were good, things that didn’t work: a kind of tuning, tweaking session that would be adopted and put into the next run.

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Packed with laughs of recognition and horror

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Ann-Marie MacDonald in Rehearsals

I knew the play was fierce, with a kind of gritty, intentionally flat use of language that is mercilessly naturalistic with none of the embellishments of American naturalism – say the self-conscious cadences and cut-offs of Mamet, the lyricism of Tennesse Williams, the tragic earnestness of Arthur Miller. Then, just when I’ve decided the language [...]

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