Sunday, November 09, 2008
RSMAD weekend! Patter Merchants and The Hitch Hiker
Its already been a bit of a mad weekend so far. I've just come home from a rather busy day out in the town, in the afternoon I went up to the RSAMD where Bill our tutor who takes us for the Patter Merchants group to rehearse our scenes. Being my first experience of the RSAMD, I must admit I quite enjoyed looking around the building, even though I was a bit infuriated by its long winding corridors and less than helpfully marked door signs!! I had a bit of bother trying to find Bill's room only to find he wasn't actually in it but in a different room altogether! So good start. But thankfully we sussed it out and got on with some rehearsing. One bit of advice if you are ever thinking of buying a cup of tea from the RSAMD, don't bother as you will just end up trying to pull the cover off and spraying hot tea all over yourself!! (If you are me that is!).
Anyway I'll be back in again tomorrow for some more rehearsing with my other scene partner Wilma, which so far it has been going fine (although we await more scene "tweakage" tomorrow!).
After that I went home and went back up in the evening to see electronica melancholica band Cinephile do their stuff up at the Gilmore G12 building, which is a very nice venue, and they were very good indeed, Susan their singer put in a great vocal performance and Kenny Inglis (the songwriter and deckman) expertly chruned out the samples and keyboard work. So I look forward to the next time they play, G12 is a great venue too, would like to see another gig there sometime.
Oh and a quick note on my Radio Theatre Group play during the week which I played the eponymous Hitch Hiker (which involved a fair bit more than my first role, mainly me scribbling down many notes on when to appear as the Hitch Hiker and how to do it), it was good fun up at the Ramshorn Theatre again. It was a good show and Derek MacDonald's main performance as Ronald Adams was in my opnion very good and everyone I have to say did a fine job. So that's me finished with the RTG for now, I might have a small part coming up for their Festive Fear season (in December of course) so we'll see how it goes. I have to say I've enjoyed working with Bruce Downie, as the direction he does give you can be quite creative, incisive and provides a good end product. So I'll look forward to getting involved again.
That'ss enough for now, more soon, in the meantime I'll get on with more Patter rehearsals! But for right now.... time for bed!
Anyway I'll be back in again tomorrow for some more rehearsing with my other scene partner Wilma, which so far it has been going fine (although we await more scene "tweakage" tomorrow!).
After that I went home and went back up in the evening to see electronica melancholica band Cinephile do their stuff up at the Gilmore G12 building, which is a very nice venue, and they were very good indeed, Susan their singer put in a great vocal performance and Kenny Inglis (the songwriter and deckman) expertly chruned out the samples and keyboard work. So I look forward to the next time they play, G12 is a great venue too, would like to see another gig there sometime.
Oh and a quick note on my Radio Theatre Group play during the week which I played the eponymous Hitch Hiker (which involved a fair bit more than my first role, mainly me scribbling down many notes on when to appear as the Hitch Hiker and how to do it), it was good fun up at the Ramshorn Theatre again. It was a good show and Derek MacDonald's main performance as Ronald Adams was in my opnion very good and everyone I have to say did a fine job. So that's me finished with the RTG for now, I might have a small part coming up for their Festive Fear season (in December of course) so we'll see how it goes. I have to say I've enjoyed working with Bruce Downie, as the direction he does give you can be quite creative, incisive and provides a good end product. So I'll look forward to getting involved again.
That'ss enough for now, more soon, in the meantime I'll get on with more Patter rehearsals! But for right now.... time for bed!
# posted by kenny @ 3:30 am 
