in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Tag: theatre
Not by the Hair of My Chinny-chin-chin!
From a school production of the Three Little Pigs about 25 years ago. And this was the Big Bad Wolf: FOWC with Fandango: Chin
And now for some Acting
Silent Sunday
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When in Stratford
it’s easy to go to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. But there are other places to go.
Acting Out
Within one month of moving to Harare in Zimbabwe, I was part of a huge open air passion play production. Two years later we had the next outdoor production, this time it was The Book of Esther, with me playing Esther’s mother.
It was a wonderful experience but looking at the picture I’m sure my days on the stage are past.
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[Disclaimer: The photos have been photographed from prints.]
A performance with consequences
I normally don’t take photos during performances – it is too distracting – for me, for the audience and often for the actors on stage. However, I tried out my new cell phone to capture this picture (this is a few years back, it was my first mobile capable of photos and I was stunned what I could do without a flash). It was a performance by our local folklore society, usually a combination of mostly authentic costumes, a great painted backdrop (merely 50 years old), mediocre writing, bad acting, and worse singing. As you can probably tell, I myself am often a part of these proceedings (which makes it even more difficult to take photos).
I picked this photo because I really wanted to feature the young maiden standing left of the tall guy in the middle. She was the reason I came to this performance, laughed a lot, and joined the group a couple of years later. I blame her!
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Stage.
People from 29 nations are working under this roof
This banner was outside the theatre in Mönchengladbach.
“Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.”
Paulo Coelho
Linked to Travel with Intent. More posts inspired by the Coelho quote can be found here.
The pull of the limelight
I can only offer rehearsal photos since the limelight beckons me too and when the actual performance is on I’m sitting in the green room waiting for my cue.
#25 square lights Rampenlicht
Gerwebäscher Leit
To me, heritage is connected with language, therefore I chose to display photos from our local theatre production. All the photos were taken during rehearsal (except the bottom left one) since I was in the cast. Each year a different play of of the same author is performed. He wrote in the early parts of the 20th century but the stories take place in the 19th. He wrote in the local vernacular and the historical society puts on the plays as part of their effort to preserve the traditions and the dialect of the town. The backdrop – depicting typical half timbered houses from the area – dates back to the 1950s and has been used in every production since.
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