In TIme O' Strife and Notes from the Underground
I'm just back from holiday in Poland (which was great) and things are getting really busy. I started work as assistant director on the National Theatre of Scotland's ' In Time O' Strife ' by Joe Corrie, directed by Graham McLaren. Here's a wee video about the exciting concepts behind the show: It has been a great experience so far and what has been really nice to see is the way in which Graham incorporates actioning into his rehearsal process. I talk a little bit about this approach in my previous post about the classes I've been teaching at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, so it has been very interesting to see the process taken out of the classroom and into the professional rehearsal room. We have been working through the script scene by scene and attributing an 'action' (ie a transitive verb) to each line/thought. This can be a slow process to begin with but, as the actors get used to the idea, it starts to speed up. We then have