Holly Carpenter's Blog (5)

Show day!!!!!!!

After weeks of rehearsing, tonight is the night... We open for 13 at Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff 7.30pm!

Our amazing tech team brought the piece to life and we cannot wait to show 13 off in tonights opening performance!

Tickets available on the door.
See you all @ 7.30pm.

Added by Holly Carpenter on July 21, 2014 at 20:55 — No Comments

Protesting, puns and paranormal performances.

What a brilliant day rehearsing! I feel incredibly excited to start again tomorrow with a full run having learnt so much today. 

"be Bold"

"Naturalistic???... naaaaaah"

"more tank moments"

It's amazing what these three short sentences from our brilliant director, Catherine Paskell, did for the piece today. Simple sentences which I'll take into everything I do in theatre! My body is aching,…

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Added by Holly Carpenter on July 16, 2014 at 9:34 — No Comments

Tears, Tory talk and tons of Tension!

As you can probably guess by my chosen title, we worked on the second half of the play today!

Working on the second half in isolation was very challenging to say the least, especially when we came to the end scene which we understandably call "mega-scene", as a lot of energy, focus and of course clear, driven objectives were needed. We found having repeated the scenes a few times, we'd occasionally fall into playing the end product.. Every audience member's…

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Added by Holly Carpenter on July 15, 2014 at 11:25 — No Comments

TRAILER!!!

Haven't decided whether you want to come to Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff to watch 13 yet???

Take a look at this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8toH4-UevLc

Added by Holly Carpenter on July 10, 2014 at 11:55 — No Comments

13 by Mike Bartlett rehearsals!

I thoroughly enjoyed yesterdays rehearsals as there was a lot, and I mean A LOT of playing with extremes in the space. We focused primarily on working with contrasting objectives which gave each line a new meaning and feeling behind it! Of course, in some instances, the change in objectives did not fit but the trial and error process was definitely the fun of it! We also looked into the difference in voice, humour and physicality between American and…

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Added by Holly Carpenter on July 9, 2014 at 23:11 — No Comments

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