64 stories by "Briony Rawle"
So it's been two months since you've had an audition. So long since you did any meaningful acting work that your facial muscles are beginning to seize up and your alas-poor-Yorrick arm doesn…
Christopher Oram's sparse set looms ominously above this exciting adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Man Booker prize-winning novel, with metal cages overhead and a huge cross at the back of the …
The Pajama Game is a shiny 1954 Broadway musical based on the novel 7 ½ Cents by Richard Bissell. This production, directed by Richard Eyre, has transferred from the Chichester Festival T…
Recently, I shot my first ever short film. "Your first one ever? What's taken you so long?" I hear you probably not ask. Yes, I've been trying to get a showreel together pretty much ever sin…
Theatre is often at its best when it's making fun of itself, and new musical Ushers, written by Yiannis Koutsakos and directed by Max Reynolds, makes a wonderfully affectionate mockery of th…
According to the blurb on the back of the playscript for Dead At Last, At Last No More Air, the playwright Werner Schwab was “the undisputed star of German-speaking theatre” at t…
Avenue Q enjoyed massive success on Broadway and in the West End after its début in 2002, and has been revived at the Greenwich Theatre after leaving the Wyndham’s Theatre for its …
That scary-faced old lady in the picture? That's me. No, my face has not been ravaged by harsh stage makeup, tears from bad reviews and constant rejection, Withnail-style fags and boozing, a…
The Play That Goes Wrong is a slapstick farce written and performed by Mischief Theatre, a company founded by a group of LAMDA graduates in 2008. The play follows in the meta-theatrical trad…
Right. I've done my tax return, tidied my room, emptied the dishwasher, done an excessively long warm-up with added zizz-ing, refreshed my email inbox precisely eleventy times and invented a…
I almost shouted with glee during the first few minutes of Carrie Cracknell's new feminist piece, Blurred Lines, at the National Theatre Shed. The eight actresses give a deadpan list, …
“I'M SOAKING WET AND I WANT TO GO CLUBBING”, I texted to my boyfriend after leaving Fuerzabruta last night. I was so exhilarated I didn't know what to do with myself. So I ran to…
Actors are very backward things in many ways. Not only do they spend their lives pretending to be people they aren't in front of an audience of people who know full well that they aren't, bu…
When I learnt that one-man mime act The Boy With Tape On His Face would be playing a full-length show for one night at the Palace Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, I wondered how a perfor…
Being an unemployed actor, I have lots of time to sit and wonder why I'm an unemployed actor. It could be that I'm terrible at acting, which would be unfortunate. Maybe I'm OK at it but have…
Looking at reviews from the Edinburgh festival this summer, it seems that The Boy With Tape On His Face is just one of a spectacularly quiet rabble of mime shows to have made a splash " acco…
I'm waiting to hear back about an audition. It went well. Ish. Well, I think it went well. Maybe it was horrible. I don't know. Of course I've been replaying every second of it that I can re…
Daniel Evans is the Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, comprising the Crucible, the Crucible Studio and the Lyceum, all of which good-naturedly share a piazza in Sheffield's newly-rege…
It's funny how people's jobs stop them from enjoying things. My friend who is a designer got upset the other day because the name of a hotel was written in lower case letters on one side of …
Apparently, now that we've blackmailed our neighbours into giving us confectionery, burned a human effigy, and watched an airborne chemistry lesson, it's officially Christmas. Well, I've got…
As you will have gathered, I am positively a wilting flower when it comes to discussing social issues, and have not in any way been known to bore on and on on Facebook about this article tha…
Most mornings I find myself lying alone on my bedroom floor going “zzzzz” in the name of voice work, which involves (I hope my voice teacher doesn't read this " sorry Alex) absol…
Kaleider is an Exeter-based theatre organisation that it would be reductive to call simply a production company; working in collaboration with a diverse range of groups from theatre companie…
Like many people, I trust my mum to be the supreme arbiter of many things in my life, such as how t…
When you become an actor, you quickly learn to redesign your notions of communication. You might (you should) have conversations on stage which involve listening and responding appropriately…
