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Sapphire’s Christmas Show
Now, I don’t
know if you watch the 10 o’clock news or anything, but if so, you might have
heard that Sapphire are doing Rumplestiltskin as our Christmas play this year.
It is what one might call terribly exciting phenomena. So, I have decided to
make that the topic of my blog as a way to spread the word for those of you
without an interest in current news.
It surprised
me throughout the developmental stages of the play the amount of people haven’t
heard the story of Rumplstiltskin. Speaking to people at school, they generally
had little idea of the plot... Perhaps it is because Disney never got round to
it? Maybe. So, from that perspective it has been a joy to play around with: a
few extra characters here and there; an abundance of creeping, springing and
frolicking; an awful lot of fun.
The
ridiculousness of ‘Rumplestiltskin’ has been a challenge for us all to rise to.
Letting go of ourselves enough to sufficiently portray the lack of sense that
the story has is something that many of us are still working towards. At the
same time though, the amount of progress that has been made is worthy of a
cheer. Take Beth, Isabelle and Bethany, quite new to the company they are
already doing a fabulous job at boasting. And Toni, who I hope won’t be too
embarrassed at my mention of her name, has done so well in terms of showing
emotion about her story telling, Ellen too. Not forgetting me as well, I’ve
done pretty well.
Humm, moving
on. This year we are double cast. For me, being double cast is great because I
think that watching the way other people act is a great way to learn. One
person can bring a lot to a character but at the same time there is so much you
can take from observing the way someone else does it. Once you start thinking
about how other people go about doing your role, you begin to notice what other
people are doing too and I think that this year more than any other I realised
that the best teachers are the people around you. Another thing about being
double cast is that the two performances that we will come out with in the end
each have a distinctly different flavour, if you will; the motivations of the
characters change and their relationships with each other.
Sneaky Mini Blog:
I thought,
having left it a day before sending this off that a little addition about the
connections auditions would be worthy of mention... I can’t say that I am used
to this style of acting, so watching the way everyone played their parts was wonderful.
I will not deny that I was, for the zombies of Nostel “Bricking it,” and I look
forward to seeing how everything is going to go. Of course, I already know that
it will be amazing after the auditions, but no doubt there is an endless amount
of ground to be covered and so much to see and learn and enjoy.
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