Kevin Elyot’s ‘Coming Clean’ has returned to Trafalgar Studios for a limited one-month run, after the production – by director Adam Spreadbury-Maher – ran in early 2019 to great success. […]
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BACKSTAGE AT CHRISTMAS: An interview with Meriel Cunningham
It’s panto season! We get a behind-the-scenes perspective from first-time pantomime performer Meriel Cunningham. Meriel recently graduated from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she trained as an […]
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BEHIND THE MAGIC: “I like theatres because they’re a bit like churches – they give sanctuary”
I meet Felix Dunning, Company Stage Manager (CSM) of the touring production Caroline’s Kitchen, immediately after the Saturday matinee in Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre. He is full of energy and begins showing me around the set straight away, whilst simultaneously clearing the stage after a particularly chaotic final scene.
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BEHIND THE MAGIC: “there’s a lot of care about the hair”
This week Claudia Graham was fortunate enough to speak with Rick Strickland, Hair and Make-up Head of Department at ‘MAMMA MIA!’, about the world of backstage beauty.
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BEHIND THE MAGIC: “Stage management tend to be the fairies of production”
~An Interview with Stage Manager, Jen Raith [Bat Out of Hell]~ On a cold and rainy Saturday morning, I show up wet-haired at the stage door of the Dominion Theatre, […]
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