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Rod’s blog 21.03.13
Now that ‘Psychos’ is well and truly on the road, it’s time to think back on the work and then begin the journey of the next project. I want to reflect on openness and what it is to be open. One of my early rehearsal exercises is to explore being ‘open’ and being ‘closed’ – […]
Rod’s Blog 5.02.13
After all the hype about me stepping back onstage in underpants and vest (thanks Nick Ahad for highlighting that in your preview!) ‘Sex and Docks and Rock n Roll’ played to good houses all week at The City Varieties and I have to admit – I thoroughly enjoyed playing Ronnie McDermott and wandering front of […]
Rod’s Blog 10.01.13
If I haven’t wished you a Happy New Year, dear reader, then I think today is the probably the last date when I can before it becomes a rather eccentric thing to say. The last time I blogged was in November when I had been working with students from Northern School of Contemporary Dance and […]
Rod’s Blog 9.11.12
It’s strange the way creativity sometimes pops and crackles like a cheap firework and makes you jump. A few weeks ago – I can’t remember exactly when, but it was… just before the week in Hull when I made a short piece of theatre with Foundation Degree students – I met Beccy Owen for lunch. […]
Rod’s Blog 31.10.12
I hate Halloween – or rather what the American imperialists have done to it. ‘Trick or Treat’ is nothing to do with ‘Mischief Night’ as we called it when I was a kid. It was good fun but without the aim of grabbing as many ‘treats’ as you can. My four and six year old […]
Rod’s Blog 21.08.12
have a tan – it is fading and if you look closely it is really just a thick cluster of freckles – but I have what passes as a tan – gained from three weeks in real weather, not sprayed from a can! Ella and I spent the last few weeks driving our kids from […]
Rod’s Blog 16.08.12
Rod’s Summer Blog I’m all alone in the office after a manic month – everyone else is away on holiday and as soon as I have written this blog I am out of here too!! The last time I wrote we were about to go into production week and technical rehearsals for ‘Promised Land’. As […]
Rod’s Blog 18.06.12
Here we are in production week for ‘Promised Land’ – and we have one final rehearsal tonight with an interview with The Today Programme for Radio 4. Of course this doesn’t guarantee an airing for us – it all depends what ‘news’ comes in – but it will be great to have a feature about […]
Rod’s Blog 23.05.12
‘Promised Land’ opens in one month. That sounds a bit scary! We are now at the point of doing staggered run-throughs of the play. As is always the case, at this stage we have moments of pure brilliance and scenes which can’t really progress without props or set. I just have to keep faith in […]
Rod’s Blog 20.03.12
So. The NHS has gone. We have lost free health care – probably forever. The Tories and the Limp Dems have decided that following the disastrous model of the private system in the US will be sustainable – no I mean – profitable. I’m not in the least bit surprised by how undemocratic this all […]
