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Final week of rehearsals: shaken not stirred
Assistant Director on The Astronaut’s Chair, Bethany Pitts, has been burning the candle at both ends through the last week of rehearsals, claiming that cocktail making was ‘research’… “Last Monday we arrived in the tranquil setting of TR2 for our … Continue reading
Gearing up for takeoff
Heading into week 3, we hit the halfway point of rehearsals (already, eek!) and everything steps up a gear. This week, we have had costume fittings with Lorna and Bob, who joined us on Skype (intermittently) from Germany where he … Continue reading
Several small steps and one giant smash
I’m once again handing over the literary reins to Assistant Director Bethany, who is on the second week of rehearsals for The Astronaut’s Chair. “The second week of rehearsals for The Astronaut’s Chair dawned shortly after the news that Neil Armstrong had taken a … Continue reading
OMIGOD you guys, they are soooo well behaved!
No-one can resist a thespian animal – they’re well trained, clean and bloomin’ good looking. Remember Peregrine, the pony from Birmingham Royal Ballet with a mane that smelt like Pantene?! This week I met Lola, Browser and Breezer – the … Continue reading
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Tagged backstage, breezer, browser, bruiser, bulldog, chihuahua, delta nu, dogs, gareth gates, jack russell, jennifer ellison, legally blonde, omigod, plymouth, theatre, west end
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Corsets fun at the Opera!
Remember Louise from our previous ‘A Day in the Life of PR’? Well here is she is again, being a lucky old so-and-so and popping up the M5 to Cardiff to spend the day with Welsh National Opera’s wardrobe/costume department … Continue reading
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Tagged backstage, Cardiff, corset, costume, dance, dressers, historical dance, interview, la traviata, Mr Darcy, opera, petticoat, plymouth, PR, press, public relations, publicity, sherlock holmes, theatre, theatre royal, timelapse photography, touring, wardrobe, Welsh, welsh national opera, wno
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Conspiracy theory, snorting sugar substitutes and a play with a really funny title…
Friday last week I went to London to check out rehearsals for our production of the interestingly named play Horse Piss For Blood by Carl Grose. Summing up the play in a sentence is tricky, but I’ll try. Set in … Continue reading
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Tagged backstage, dance attic, production, rehearsals, theatre
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Them actors be superstitious folk, you know…
So, yesterday I wore my new trainers to work. As I walked along Royal Parade I looked down at them and had that childish moment of glee that only comes from a ‘new-shoes-day’. It was slightly dampened, however, by that fact … Continue reading
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Tagged backstage, squeaky shoes, the scottish play, theatre superstitions
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The First One: Intros and Hellos
Hello, and welcome to the first official Theatre Royal Plymouth blog! My aim is to give you an insight into the weird and wonderful ways of theatre life in Plymouth. More often than not it’ll just be me, Laura from … Continue reading
Backstage at the Theatre Royal Plymouth 