Blog posts
- Rose Double Plus
Posted on Wed 16 May 2012 by Ciaran McConville
I know that something is wrong when I look at the website and see that Stephen Unwin has managed to post more blogs than I have. So, I'm rolling up my cybersleeves with plenty to say after a very welcome spring holiday.
- It’s all go at the moment!
Posted on Mon 14 May 2012 by Stephen Unwin
I’ve loved directing The Conquest of the South Pole at the Arcola.
- Manfred Karge: The playwright who grapples with the underclass
Posted on Wed 11 Apr 2012 by Stephen Unwin
It must have been in late 1986 that word reached me of an extraordinary new one-woman play by the great East German director and playwright Manfred Karge. I managed to get hold of the script and was blown away.
- 33 Actors and 3 Volunteers
Posted on Sun 8 Apr 2012 by Ciaran McConville
Last week was taken over for me by our Rose Plus production of The Crucible. It is in the nature of community theatre, I suppose, that a long, sporadic rehearsal period is followed by an intensive week dominated by notes that should probably have given much earlier in the process.
- Rooms, Tents and Rental
Posted on Fri 30 Mar 2012 by Ciaran McConville
I watched the Rose Plus Players’ end of term showing of Hay Fever on Monday.
- Bands of Brothers
Posted on Fri 23 Mar 2012 by Ciaran McConville
Lucy Hughes, head of drama at Tiffin Boys, very kindly invited me to adjudicate the school’s house drama competition last Wednesday. I didn’t really know what to expect and, having worked a lot recently on Ibsen, I suppose I was set for something quite heady and curriculum-based. Far from it.
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