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The HarbourFront Centre, Toronto, brought Stan’s Cafe over with two shows – The Cleansing of Constance Brown (performed in the Enwave Theatre, Power Plant building) and Of All The People In All The World (aka. The Rice Show – to be performed in the York Quay Building next door). As a taster to the rice […]
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Temperatures rising….
3 shows down and the 11-strong Constance Brown team are getting into their stride. Still plenty of tweaking to be done as re-calibrated cogs find their new meeting points. Some scenes seem to slip by smoother than ever, as does the ‘Office Crisis’ scene, which is enormous fun to perform and has us grinning and […]
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Opening Night
Late afternoon respite, in between this afternoon’s open dress rehearsal, (attended by a gathering of staff from The HarbourFront) and this evening’s opening performance of The Cleansing of Constance Brown. It’s become a feature of this show that at every outing, it seems, a new performer has to be integrated into the show. Too expensive […]
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HarbourFront
Get-in day at The Power Plant, on Toronto’s HarbourFront. Everybody in this City seems incredibly laid back and stress levels during the fit-up are low. It feels such a treat being here. The gig has been a long-time in the planning. Tina from the venue saw the show at Edinburgh in 2007, so it’s nearly […]
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terminal 3
There’s a 4.44am-something psychosis as I arrive at terminal 3, several hours prior to departure. The early shift suddenly overwhelm my entrance as a coachload of functionaries sweep past me, zombie-faced, toward the myriad tasks that make up Heathrow – airport machine. I’ve got what you might call excess baggage. 4 crates of rice show […]
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a start
Thanks to Nick for guiding me through my first social media surgery. After so much thinking and not enough doing I’m up and running with my blog. Not to mention becoming the custodian of the graemerose.com domain. Why hasn’t it been nabbed before, I ask? Has it been sitting there waiting for me? I’m off […]
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