If Clarendon Productions’ Amadeus is a story about raising Gods and ghosts there is no denying that they would have been appeased by such a display of energy and creativity. So much of the director’s personality shines through, which is a sign of quite how excellently his vision was realised.
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Breaking a Leg and other Theatre Disasters
Do you know where the phrase 'break a leg' comes from? It does not, as I have almost witnessed, come from that moment in which everything goes awry and the actor slips from the chair they're standing on, but rather from the concept that actors did not get paid unless they stepped onto stage, breaking … Continue reading Breaking a Leg and other Theatre Disasters
In My Reviewer Era
It has been a term of comp tickets and 2am essay submissions, a term of sudden realisation that I had a Finals paper to do and very little time to prepare. Yet, it has also been the term where I have turned twenty one and had the sudden realisation that adulthood is coming up fast to greet me as most of my peers from school graduate.