#Festival Theatre

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Much Ado About Bawdy Bodies

  Director Chris Abraham brought a fine slapstick sensibility to this production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with the cast dangling off trees, second story balconies, falling downstairs & hiding under tables. Add to it some openly sexual jokes with props & you have an excellent bawdy body take on this play. Even the seamless addition of some feminist text to the play didn’t detract…

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#Allison Edwards-Crewe #Austin Ecker #Avon Theatre #Chris Abraham #comedy #Festival Theatre #Graham Abbey #Josue Laboucane #Maev Beaty #Much Ado About Nothing #Ontario #Patrick McManus #photographs #Shakespeare #Stratford #Stratford Festival #Toronto

[kermodefan94-blog]

The (Live) "Room Where It Happens" Finally on the Road. Hamilton UK Tour (Edinburgh) Review.

Authors note. This article will assume some knowledge of the show and material. This isn’t necessarily a “spoiler” piece per se (it’s hard to judge what counts as a spoiler with media as distinctly saturated and based on a certain level of historical fact/fiction. Nevertheless, if you are unfamiliar with Hamilton as a property or plan for this UK tour to be your first experience of said show, it…

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#Edinburgh #Festival Theatre #Lin-Manuel Miranda #Touring Premiere. #UK Tour

[robynqueenofstuff]

#the ocean at the end of the lane #festival theatre #edinburgh

[puppetdaily]

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol at Chichester Festival Theatre

#the ghost of christmas yet to come #the ghost of christmas future #a christmas carol #charles dickens #theatre #chichester festival theatre

[lovebooksgroup]

ANYTHING GOES - Festival Theatre Edinburgh 11th - 15 May #Theatre Review #Musical @captheatres #Edinburgh #WhatsonEdi

ANYTHING GOES - Festival Theatre Edinburgh 11th - 15 May https://www.capitaltheatres.com/whats-on/anything-goes #Theatre Review #Musical @captheatres #Edinburgh #WhatsonEdi

Anything Goes The five-star sold-out musical sensation, Anything Goes shimmers and sparkles in Edinburgh for a strictly limited season. The musical sensation Anything Goes features a 50 strong cast and ensemble of the finest we have to offer on stage (including tap dancing sailors!) and a full-sized live orchestra, this heart-warming and hilarious production is “the spectacle of the year” (The…

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#Anything Goes #Festival Theatre #Kerry Ellis #Musical #Theatre Review

[therulerofrandomness]

Guys I did it. I'm gonna be in the room where it happens.

#hamilton musical #alexander hamilton #musicals #edinburgh #edinburgh festival theatre

[ineffablemossy]

Off to see Wyrd Sisters tonight, at the theatre! Feels so fancy <3

I remember seeing a Witches Abroad production when I was a teen!

I wish Terry was still with us.

#theatre #so excited #wyrd sisters #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #we miss you #discworld #edinburgh #edinburgh fringe #edinburgh festival #now im sad #neil gaiman #josh kirby

[irate-iguana]

Hello Richard Club! Remember that post I made talking about an explicitly queer reinterpretation of Richard II, set in disco era NYC, and starring a Black nonbinary actor? Well that production was filmed and has just been released on the Stratford Festival’s streaming service: here is a link. The site offers a 7 day free trial.

#i swear i am not being paid by the stratford festival. but maybe they should consider paying me #shakespeare #richard ii #disco richard #theatre #original post #stratford festival

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#darkwave #ebm #industrial #electro #substance festival #los angeles #the globe theatre #music #festival #electronic #poster #design #poster art #flyer design #flyer #u

[lesbianrecorderplayer]

Annie Twilloil was SO lesbian for directing a play in which the two main Cornley actresses were Both in love with her.

#I would do the exact same #annie twilloil #cornley polytechnic drama society #cpds #the goes wrong show #tgws #mischief theatre #cornley drama festival

[aflockofbees]

#hamish linklater #paris ACTORS! #williamstown theatre festival #hamfam

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Stratford 2023

  This year we’ve seen six of the Stratford Festival season. The most we’ve seen there in one summer. I guess we were making up for the pandemic closedown lol. Each was different & each were worth seeing even when they weren’t ‘perfect.’  Spamalot ‘I’m not dead’ Starting with the energetic, hilarious Spamalot. Excellent cast, fun staging & unexpectedly good dancing. No! We did not buy coconuts…

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#Avon Theatre #Festival Theatre #Ontario #photographs #Shakespeare #Stratford #Stratford Festival #Tom Patterson #Toronto

[sarcastic-kaz]

Rent?! No one ever talks about rent. Tell me rent things.

AUGHHHH RENT!!!!

i went to watch it at the stratford festival like three days ago!!!

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I LOVE RENT! FROM SO MANY PERSPECTIVES! IT TALKS ABOUT THE AIDS CRISIS AND TRANS PEOPLE AND GAY PEOPLE AND DEATH AND GRIEF AND HOMELESSNESS AND SO MANY IMPORTANT TOPICS IN JUST ONE MUSICAL

keep reading if you want to see my theatre nerd side, i basically swoon over set design, backstage, lights, model choices, etc.

AS SOMEONE WHO LOVES THEATRE PRODUCTION A LOT MORE THAN ACTING, THE STAGE THEY USED TO CONVEY THIS MUSICAL HAS SO MUCH AS WELL!

LIGHTS, SOUND, PROPS AND MANAGEMENT OF SPACE WENT SO WELL AT THE FESTIVAL THEATRE!

its something called a thrust stage at the festival theatre, which is different than your usual type of stage, aka the proscenium stage. the thrust stage thrusts to the centre of the room, making it so that you can watch the play from all angles, and not specifically need to get centre, front row seats. you can see with the second photo below that even the people at the edge get an interesting perspective.

the actors and designers also have a fun time with thrust stages! you have to act with your entire body, as all pov seats can watch you, and designers have to be careful about props and use space wisely, especially since its a much smaller space than your usual, and theres no curtains meaning that scene changes have to be imaginative as well.

as you can see with the photo i took, i did in fact get centre front seats, only because a huge tour group backed out last seconds and my mom was able to snag the tickets.

(i actually watched it twice! first time at the festival was with the theatre group where i was looking at all the lights and cues and analyzing shit, but second time was bc my siblings wanted to watch it live and i could sit back and enjoy the show, looking at some things i wanted to rewatch that other campers had talked about that i missed (the first photo i took of the stage is from camp, on the balcony, while the second is the most recent and from in front of the stage))

from theatre camp, i also got the absolute privlage to get a tour of the festival theatre, and watch a changeover. since the festival theatre goes through multiple plays a day (richard III for a matinee, rent as a night show just as an example) they change the entire set.

i dont care about shakespeare, so were here to talk about the changeover to rent. they expanded the stage and made it much denser material, since people will be dancing on it, and changed the sudden drop to stairs, so the actors wouldnt trip on stage or while dancing. they also added that small platform to the centre of the stage, and did so much with it!

at first, that small platform was used as mark and rogers apartment, and there were metaphorical walls that everyone could see. even though collins was standing RIGHT NEXT TO THEM, he wasnt on the platform and was looking upwards, while mark was looking downwards, signalling they were on different floors.

for the 'la vie boheme' dance scene, they used it as a huge table to seat all the people around it, on the ground. they simly laid a cloth on the edges to make it a table, and the audience could take it as a table.

there was also a trapdoor in the centre of that thing, so for one musical number involving rogers and mimi, they were brought up, being the centre of attention while everyone else danced around them. it also became a small table for one scene.

the next thing the trapdoor did. it went down under the stage, where angel would climb onto it, and 'today 4 u' song, she rose out onto the stage in a puff of smoke and a badass christmas fit!!! so cool!

trapdoor was then used as a makeshift bed for angel, where collins helped her lie as she died of aids. they covered her with a huge cloth, which each of the group threw in and yelled 'im done!' and walked away, leaving collins still clutching it with angel underneath, the trapdoor going inwards as her grave.

let me tell you. they transitioned so well. the trapdoor went back into the trap room, where collins would also let go of the cloth and got it to sink into the hole. id assume the actor got out, the people down there would take the cloth, and while everyone on stage was doing the funeral scene, the people down there would put angels bucket with a bouquet inside and place it on the trapdoor.

theyd then let the trap back up onto stage, replacing the cloth and angel with her bucket and a bouquet in it. that made me sob the first time i saw it. holy shit.

now, away from the sad stuff and back to set design.

if you look at the photo, you can see windows in the backgrounds. they look like normal windows, until you look closer to see silhouettes in them. men and woman.

those were used A LOT to convey the scene. i cant remember the orders, but the main examples that stuck out to me:

for the 'tango maureen', the windows lit up red and you could see the people a lot better, which implies all the people shes slept with/cheated with

when they got together for the aids meeting, the windows lit up in rainbow colours to signify all the people who suffer to aids and the general lgbtq colours

when they were talking about homeless people with benny, the lights shone in different cold hues, showing all the people in tent city and how they must be freezing in the winter

'rent' the song, the windows were flashing with the song, and when the power got cut, all the lights went out except a faint blue from the lights above so the audience could still somewhat see what was happening

sound. all the cast used mics, id guess that the chorus would trade mics based on who had huge lines. before it started, you could hear general city sounds, cars, beeping, general business that you would get from new york that i found a bit cool. i think you can tell im not that passionate about sound.

alright, what else? costumes. costumes, costumes. I LOVED ANGELS FITS. HOLY FUCK, HER NEW YEARS EVE DRESS WAS SORTA TRANSPARENT BUT HAD A RAINBOW SHIMMER TO IT?! I LOVED IT SO MUCHHHHH AAAAAAAAA other than that i have little to no things about costumes... they were all wearing basic fits that were usual for the 80's, all sorts of hip-hop, t-shirts, jeans, your usual.

found some from the web! first photo is that outfit i scream about up there, and the second is her coming out of the trapdoor for 'today 4 u'!!!

okok now actors... I MET THE GUY WHO PLAYED COLLINS FOR THIS SEASON AT THE FESTIVAL!!! or, me and my entire theatre production camp did. we all got autographs, and got to speak to him bc we waited for everyone else to leave the theatre before we could go as a group, so all the actors had the time to change out of things and stuff. it turns out that someone he knew died of aids not too long ago, so his reaction to angel's death is pretty spot-on. he was so cool! the name's Lee Siegel if you wanted to look more into that.

last thing (i think). at the end, after an amazing scene where the cloth used on angel to lower her down the trapdoor was used to present all the little clips mark got over the year they all had together, angel came out of the centre door draped in this blanket, which all the cast would lay onto the stage.

and everything would go to applause.

in all, rent is amazing! <3 especially after watching tick tick boom!

(sorry for ranting i love theatre (realised i should probably save this to talk about in drama class when school starts...))

#rent the musical #rent #stratford festival #theatre #musical theater #theater kid #musicals #mimi #roger davis #maureen johnson #angel dumott schunard #joanne jefferson #tom collins #mark cohen #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt pride #gay #transgender #drag queen #lesbian #text post #sorry for ranting #lol #tick tick boom #aids crisis #aids epidemic #lgbtq history #queerness #new york

[justarandombrit]

On today's episode of, there's a musical about basically everything;

Have you ever wished you could see two true crime fanatics actually solve a murder, rather than talking about them on podcasts? Now you can!

Are you a Great British Bake Off fan? We got you covered.

Do you... Like public bathrooms? That's... Yeah we have that too!

Donald Trump with some sort of artistic subversion that I couldn't figure out? You bet we have it.

(Not technically a musical, but) Lesbians;; can sing... So... That's cool.

Musicals, in order:

Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! (by Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones) | Great British Bake Off: The Musical (by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary) | Public - The Musical (by Kyla Stroud) | Trump L'oeil: The Musical (by Henry Parkman Biggs) | The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (by Iman Qureshi)

#musical theatre #musical theater #kathy and stella solve a murder #gbbo #great british bake off #great british baking show #great british bake off musical #public - the musical #trump L'oeil #the ministry of lesbian affairs #edinburgh music festival #broadway #theatre #theater #edinburgh fringe

[thecabinsixwitch]

chb cabin aesthetics: 10/?

🍇🐅 Dionysus - Cabin 12🍷🎭

Lemme tell ya somethin' / If you didn't come to party / Don't bother knockin' on my door / I got a lion in my pocket / And baby he's ready to roar, yeah yeah / Everybody's got a bomb / We could all die here today / But before I'll let that happen / I'll dance my life away

“1999” - Prince

• requested by anonymous

(feel free to send me moodboard requests!)

#dionysus #dionysus god #dionysus aesthetic #child of dionysus #cabin twelve #cabin 12 #camp half blood #chb cabin aesthetic #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson & the olympians #pjo #pjo series #pjo hoo toa #percy jackson aesthetic #rick riordan #riordanverse #greek mythology #mythology aesthetic #wine #party #festivity #theatre #theatre aesthetic #theater #fine arts #prince #prince and the revolution #my moodboards

[joytri]

The Theatre Student/Enthusiast

#aesthetic #dark academia #spotify #festive #theatre #broadway #musical #play #theatre student #theatre stuff #coffee #art #holidays #artists #actors #actress #shakespeare #playwright #cinema #shows #auditorium #hall #act