October 2011
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Backstage Diary from Beryl Nairn
A sneak behind the scenes of our critically acclaimed production of Macbeth - from cast member Beryl Nairn:
“I am in props stepped in so far…
Picture the scene. A pile of gas masks, one prosthetic chopped-off finger, great coats, rifles, swords, tin hats by the score, hairpins, trestle tables, glasses, plates of fruit and gruesome-looking taxidermic animals.
Suddenly, a smoke...
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Reviews!
Just a small selection of that fantastic response we’ve had from our production of Macbeth.
“Mark France’s vaulting ambition as a director results in the most impressive use to date of the black box stage at 41 Monkgate…Mooted’s Macbeth is bold, brutal, modern and deeply resonant” - York Press
“A powerful, realistic, and very human ensemble play, with some...
September 2011
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Meet the Creatives: Composer and Sound Designer...
Screams as music, explosions as rhythm, field recordings, live electronics and recording the supernatural - we caught up with Composer Kingsley Ash to talk about his soundtrack to Macbeth. 1. What was your initial reaction the original brief and how has that effected any research and instrumentation choices? The dark themes and settings of the play are really exciting to work with - there is war,...
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Interview with our Macbeth (David Zezulka) and... →
DAVID Zezulka is playing Macbeth for the first time in Mooted Theatre Co’s production in York, but he knows Shakespeare’s Scottish play only too well.
“Twice I’ve been Banquo and once Ross, as well as numerous murderers and doctors – the delights of low-paid theatre,” says David, a Leeds-born actor of Czech descent who returned to Yorkshire a couple of years ago after seven or eight years...
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Interview with Director Mark France - from One &... →
With Mooted Theatre’s Macbeth just around the corner we speak to director Mark France about his past, present and what lies next for Mooted.
Could you tell us a bit about your own background?
I started directing about fifteen years ago down in my home town of Poole, but only really pursued it professionally after completing my postgraduate studies in Leeds in 2003. Since then I’ve worked at ...
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Introducing the creatives: Audrie Woodhouse,...
In the run up to the show we’re going to be opening the blog up to the creative team behind our production of Macbeth and let them explain the inner workings of the show.
First up - Movement Director Audrie Woodhouse!
http://www.woodhousetheatre.co.uk/
Audrie is a Professional Actress and Performance Coach with more than ten years of teaching experience. She specialises in Mask and...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Announcing our next production - Macbeth!
28th Sept - 8th Oct 2011
41 Monkgate Theatre, York
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes…”
With the wounds of a bloody civil war still fresh, Scotland will bleed anew.
Countless young lives ended on the battlefield, but the old continue to grapple for power, oblivious to the demons spawned amidst the blood and barbed wire.
The dark powers choose Macbeth, who becomes...
May 2010
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York Press Review →
Charles Hutchinson was there on the first night in Leeds to review the show - and he certainly seemed to like it!
Tickets for the next two weeks performances in York, Halifax, Knaresborough and Rotherham are available via the Mooted Theatre website - http://www.mootedtheatre.com/tickets.html
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Highway Robbery!!
We’ve had an absolutely exhausting, back breaking week getting everything ready for the first performances of this new play by Leeds playwright Gemma Head. Amongst the usual organised chaos of a get in and tech, the Mooted Theatre Co cast and crew were subject to a somewhat ironic, if completely unpleasant, experience for a group performing a play about the final days of highway robber...
March 2010
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The Ferry Inn where DEAD MAN'S SHOES is set -... →
February 2010
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Casting for DEAD MAN'S SHOES
Mooted are currently seeking Yorkshire-based actors wanted for the touring production of a new play by Gemma Head, ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’. The play is a dark, sensual and blackly funny re-imagining of the last weeks of the life of the highwayman Dick Turpin.
Rehearsals will commence late March on a part-time basis and the production will tour Yorkshire venues over the first three...
July 2009
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Audience member proposes at Shrew performance! →
Our most hearty congratulations to Lauren and Keith! It was an absolutely wonderful moment - we’re really pleased we could help!
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First review: "a wildly successful Taming Of The... →
CAST-DIARY: The Demon Spofforth by Alistair Carr
“During the Saturday evening performance I was being the Vicar and meandering round the audience with Vicky selling cakes during the village fete induction scene. One lady said, ‘ooh they look lovely, so tempting’, and I said ‘you should always give in to temptation’ and then suddenly realised that wasn’t a terribly vicarish thing to say.
Also, is it too late...
June 2009
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Rowntree Park, York →
For those unsure of where we’re performing the York run - wonder no longer - here’s the Google map to Rowntree Park stage.
Looks like a smiley face from the air!
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Victoria Morris in 'The Stage'
Our very own Victoria Morris is interviewed in this weeks copy of ‘The Stage’ about her leading role as Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew as well as her work running the Paul Nicholas School of Acting in Wetherby.
Available from all good newstands!
http://www.thestage.co.uk/
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CAST-DIARY: The Night I Killed Biondello by...
“And so we come to the last scene, and a brief chat about what our characters, in my case Vincentio, have achieved since the previous scene. Now, Vincentio ends the previous scene threatening, quite correctly in the opinion of any right-thinking man, to slit the nose of Tranio, his son’s servant. Jonathan, who is playing Tranio goes before me, and announces that Tranio has been...
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WatchThe cast and crew recently spent our first rehearsal in the beautiful space we’ll be performing in at Rowntree Park. A magnificent amphitheatre of trees, an enormous performance space and a grassy bank that screams “Picnic!”.
Not literally. That would be terrifying.
Still - a challenging and exciting venue - and one that, come July, will be transformed into 1950s Padua via a...
CAST-DIARY: The Night I Kissed Andy Curry
Cast member Alistair Carr (Grumio / Gremio / Vincentio) sent through this delightful glimpse into the minutae of the rehearsal process, which we thought we’d share with you, the beautiful public.
“The first rehearsal of Act 5. Vincentio discovers his son is not, as he presumes dead, and so he does that Vincentio thing of kissing him on both cheeks. But Disaster Station, I go for...
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Petruchio (Jamie Smelt) attempts to woo the...
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WatchPhotos of the cast during devising workshops for the Induction. See the post below for the full story.
And obviously, yes, this was the cheesiest backing muzak we could find!
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Creating an Induction
One of the biggest challenges faced by any company putting on The Taming of the Shrew is the ‘Induction’ - a two scene section detailing an elaborate trick played on the drunk peasant Christopher Sly by a Lord and his servants. Sly is persuaded, in his stupor, that he is in fact a noblemen, with land, money and a beautiful wife. He is then presented with a play in his honour - The...
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Andy Curry (Lucentio) introduces The Taming of the...
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