August 30, 2013

Miranda Nolan - Lady in Waiting

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Miranda Nolan was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon so she has been surrounded by Shakespeare from birth!  She also has a black belt in kickboxing - too bad we won't see her do any fighting as a Lady in Waiting!

Miranda can be seen as one of the maids in the blockbuster film "The Dark Knight Rises" and she has also appeared on TV, BBC Radio, a Dannon advert and even a music video!

No stranger to the stage either she has appeared in The School for Scandal, the UK touring cast of Daisy Pulls it Off, In and Out of the Sitting Room at the RSC festival and mist recently Dominic Cooke's Arabian Nights.

You can read all about her on her webpage - http://www.mirandanolan.co.uk/

And make sure to check out her Demo Reel there!

"I could weep, madam, would it do you good." 

August 29, 2013

Keith Osborn - Scroop


Something Written in the State of Denmark: An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare CompanyKeith Osborn is very well known to David Tennant fans as the author of Something Written in the State of Denmark.  His book about his experience as a member of the cast of the RSC 2008 production of Hamlet, he was cast as Marcellus.  The book started life as a blog written to chronicle the 2008 RSC season with Greg Doran directing Midsummer Night's Dream, Loves Labours Lost and Hamlet.

Keith joined the RSC in 1985 and has been involved in over 30 productions with the company.  In addition to the three plays already mentioned he has also appeared in Measure for Measure, Othello, Eastward Ho! Edward III, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Comedy of Errors. To see a complete list of his RSC CV click here.
Keith has also appeared on many popular BBC TV series including playing Sgt. Allbright several times on the BBC One series Father Brown that premiered in January of 2013.He has also appeared in Casualty, Minder, The Bill and DoctorsYou can see Keith in this clip from the RSC answering the question "Why Shakespeare?" - (Keith speaks 2nd)

He is playing Sir Stephen Scroop in Richard II in history he was the Lord Justice of Ireland and found favor with King Henry IV, becoming Justice of Munster after 1401.
 
This is an excerpt from Act III, sc. ii, where Scroop warns King Richard II of the rise of Bolingbroke: 
Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
To bear the tidings of calamity.
Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel
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Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at: http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at: http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at: http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at: http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf

August 28, 2013

More Cast Tweets






Joshua Richards - Ross/Lord Marshal


Joshua Richards has been on stage with the RSC in previous productions, As You Like It, directed by Greg Doran in 2000 and The Cantebury Tales and Henry V.

Joshua collaborated with writer Mark Jenkins and director Guy Masterson to bring Richard Burton to life in Playing Burton.  The play debuted in 1994 at the Edinburgh Fringe and he also performed the solo show in 1997 and in Adelaide 2008.  They revived the play most recently in 2011.  You can read more about it here.
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  Click here to read his full CV.


He is playing two roles in Richard II, Lord Marshal and Lord Ross.

On pain of death, no person be so bold
Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,
Except the marshal and such officers
Appointed to direct these fair designs. 


My heart is great; but it must break with silence,
Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue. 

August 27, 2013

LONDON BARBICAN DATES STILL AVAILABLE

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Rehearsals start today!

Some of the cast have been tweeting about traveling back home to start rehearsing!


And a couple of tweets about todays start!


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