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• Newcastle
• New Space
• Another Week...
• Understudying
• Ipswich
• Gaffer Tape Moustaches
• Punts!
• Cambridge...
• I am Wolverine Boldwood
• After the stagger-through...
• ...if we all call it a box...
• 'The English Way of Death'
• Sitting in the Green Room on my own...
• Hysteria!
• Singing!
• Research!
• Stagger through...
• 3 weeks in...
• Seven hours of country dancing

After the stagger-through...

Thursday, 4 September 2008

We all felt daunted by the idea of running the whole play with an audience of invited dignitaries. Did we feel ready? Certainly not. But with reassurance from Kate that it was to be a 'stagger-through', we resigned ourselves to the inevitable.
Well, the play flew by, for me at least, and it was great to sit on the side and watch the scenes I'm not in. I thoroughly enjoyed the stuff with Bathsheba and her other men. My particular favourites: Oak proposes and the Epilogue: funny and moving. Plus the ensemble scenes are very engaging and at times exhilerating.
I, though, felt like I'd forgotten how to act and had that weird sensation of feeling hyper-aware and naked. My subsequent bout of despair was solved by Kate during the notes, apparently Boldwood's journey was becoming clear. Reminded me of something my old tutor Yat Malmgren used to say in his irresistably parodic Swedish accent: 'You can never judge a performance by the way that it feels'. (Stephen-Boldwood)

• Julie Thompson said:
  'I saw FFTMC at Newcastle Playhouse last night and it was fantastic. i have to put it as the best play I have ever seen and the lady who plays Bathsheba is an amazing actor. I felt that i was part of what was going on on stage....that's how good it was...thankyou!'
  Added: Wednesday, 22 October 2008
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• Lukasz Dobrosielski said:
  'I thought it was an awfully impressive performance! The best performance!'
  Added: Monday, 20 October 2008