Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the RSC Open Stages Skills Exchange in Wales.  I was one of ten cast members from Bath Drama’s Romeo & Juliet cast to attend.  The workshop was held in Cardiff at the Sherman Cymru Theatre over Saturday and Sunday.  We participated in two workshops on both days... Read More »

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Last month I had the pleasure of directing my first reading with Bath Drama since joining the community theatre group last year. I chose the script Rope by British playwright, Patrick Hamilton. This 1929 play was aired in long takes on BBC in 1939. In 1948 Alfred Hitchcock made a film version relocating the story... Read More »

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I took this self portrait  on the roof of the Rondo Theatre in between scenes where I was not on stage during one of our matinee performances.  I cannot express in words how much fun I had playing an 18th century princess in the Cinderella Panto and getting to dance around stage in pink and... Read More »

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Last week I was busy with dress rehearsals and our six performances of our Cinderella Panto with Bath Drama at the Rondo Theatre.  While I basically grew up in the theatre and majored in it at Uni, it had been around ten years since I had been involved.  This became my debut into the theatre... Read More »

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One of the fun things about being involved with a theatre group is attending script readings. Last night my theatre group, Bath Drama, had a rehearsed reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. As with the reading I was in last month (A Letter from the General), it was a rehearsed reading that... Read More »

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Yesterday was a milestone moment in my life.  It was the first time in ten years that I had been on stage.  The last two days I had been involved with Bath Drama for a rehearsed reading of “A Letter From The General” by Malcolm McLoughlin.  Monday night we did the first read through with... Read More »

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It has been so much fun recapping our 10th Anniversary trip to Wales with all of you and I am not even half way complete with this series of posts.  There is still the whole Vow Renewal that I have yet to share and it is coming, I promise. If you have been loving my... Read More »

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