REAPER’S RETURN by Ren Cummins
Reaper's Return, by Ren Cummins, a steampunk fantasy novel for young adults. I recorded the audiobook version in November 2013. It's the first book in the series The Chronicles of Aesirium, and features the adventures of Romany, an 11 year old orphan, who discovers that she herself is a "Reaper" - one of a line of mythological creatures who gather [...]
Theatre Dreams
We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. As I get ready to work on a new show, it’s not unusual for me to start having quite intense dreams that mix up ideas and images that I’m pondering and mulling and processing – some of them consciously, others in the [...]
Rick Cluchey and Samuel Beckett
Yesterday afternoon, I had the remarkable experience of watching Rick Cluchey performing in Samuel Beckett's one-act play, Krapp's Last Tape. Cluchey is one of the few actors still working – perhaps the only one left – to have been directed by Samuel Beckett himself. So one had the privilege of witnessing an authentic performance, played as the playwright wished it, [...]
The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond
In the spring of 1977, a bunch of Oxford undergraduates made their way to Richmond in North Yorkshire, bringing a week of theatrical mayhem to a medieval market town. With a temerity only excusable in the very young (or the very talented) they took a university production to the Georgian Theatre Royal, one of Britain's oldest theaters, where they followed [...]
“How Do You Learn All Those Lines?”
Just now, my brain feels as if it's trying to be like the Tardis (you know, bigger on the inside ...) This question about learning lines - beloved of audiences at talk-backs - poses itself afresh every time a new production looms on the actor's horizon. And I can't help feeling that by now I ought to have the answer [...]
A Victorian Eye – Background
I'm thrilled to be appearing (under my UK stage name, Nigel Dunbar) as Sir William Blake Richmond, R. A. in the forthcoming production of A Victorian Eye, a new play by Rory Fellowes, at London's Jermyn Street Theatre from July 30 to August 17, 2013. A Victorian Eye is a portrait of WBR in old age as he reflects on [...]