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She lit up the stage

December 20, 2019
The last month or so I have been working at my local theatre helping with the lighting for ‘The Railway Children’ by Edith Nesbit. It is a community theatre that puts on 4-5 plays a year and I try to help out with lights at least once a year. This blog...
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How to use light to show the darkness

December 13, 2019
I am sure that many of you have been in the situation where you need to work out how to create a lighting effect, or have seen an effect on stage, and wondered how it was created. We can have wonderful ideas, but until we try things out we do not know how they can...
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Researching a world theatre tradition

December 2, 2019
For the last 12 years I have been researching Kathakali, and as time goes on I see more and more ways to find out about the history of a tradition. Also, as time goes on I come across more and more conflicting pieces of information. It is therefore essential to cross...
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The process of learning

November 8, 2019
In July and August 2019 I was lucky enough to be preparing for a Kathakali performance that would take place in the Kerala Kathakali Centre, India. Having studied Kathakali for over 10 years it was now time for me to perform in one of the most perfectly structured...
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Surrealist theatre and design

June 12, 2019
The other day I went to see a play entitled ‘Bells and Spells’ by Victoria Thierree Chaplin with Aurelia Thierree and Jaime Martinez where walls move, lamp shades come to life, waistcoats turn into horses’ heads and a lady could sleep on top of the...