Friday, 24 June 2011

From On The Verge to Beijing


The 'On The Verge' festival is now over with all of the MACCT pieces getting great reviews.  There was a huge spread of genres and styles from one-on-one theatre to slapstick comedy via tribal rituals!  Check out the links on the right (Lethe, Sugar Factories and Lucas Petite) to read more about the shows.



We now are having a week off before heading back into the 'Wars of The Roses' with the Bard in the Botanics team.  This time, instead of the comfort of a nice theatre, we shall be performing these outside in Glasgow's botanic gardens.  Yes, that's right... outside... yes we are in Scotland ... and yes, it is a mad idea but we can't wait!

After that we start work on our new writing project, where we shall be performing brand new plays from 4 fantastic Scottish playwrights.  One of the groups, performing Davey Anderson's 'Scavengers', has been chosen to go to Beijing to take part in an international Student Festival!  Very exciting stuff, here's their welcome video - Claire seems to find something hilarious about it all... I'm not sure what though!

Friday, 17 June 2011

Full steam ahead...


We are all currently working flat-out on our new pieces for On The Verge, some people are involved in two different production and it's all getting a wee bit mad!  There are some nice pics here from Emily Reutlinger's piece 'If I...'.  It's an interesting wee show featuring brand new music with a live band as well as some great tunes from Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical 'Carousel'.


Tickets for the festival are available from the Arches box office, and for just £6 you get to see a number of exciting new works from the freshest talent based in Scotland.

Sunday, 12 June 2011

2 directors in Stratford....

Emily and Claire, 2 of the MACCT directors, arrived in Stratford today where they will be taking part in directing workshops with the RSC.  It's alright for some.  Check out their wee video here and try not to be too jealous...

Friday, 10 June 2011

Bot or Not?

Jessica, Charlie, Kimberley and Kevin have all been working away this week at their piece for On The Verge.  'Bot or Not' sounds like a whole lot of fun!  Check out Kim's blog to find out more about it and also have a look at this cheeky wee vid they have made for their dating site:



Kim explains: Jess, the director, is exploring how to produce science fiction on the stage and do it well. The concept behind the piece is a Turing Test - where a computer is pitted against a human being and through a series of questions it is determined which is the human and which is the computer. Imagine having to prove that you are human - how do you go about doing that? You can no longer use “I bleed” as a response…they can do wonderful things with synthetics now-a-days. 

Bot or Not? is a Turning Test turned game show with yours truly as the host. Two contestants: one a bot and one not. Through a series of questions the studio audience will determine which is which and who is chosen as the Bot will be given one final chance to prove they are not before the studio audience decides if they should be “squished”.
A dark comedy that explores the future of A.I.

And in other news, our wonderful teacher from the Globe, Tom Cornford, has finally entered the digital age and has got himself a website.  He's a director and teacher that is heavily influenced by the Michael Chekhov technique - check out his blog here.

Thursday, 9 June 2011

The Sugar Factories

We are all getting firmly into the middle of rehearsals for our pieces at On The Verge this week - here's Debbie and Rose talking about their piece, 'The Sugar Factories'.




You can follow Debbie's blog here.

Friday, 3 June 2011

On The Verge begins....

There are lots of exciting projects on the go just now for our On The Verge festival at The Arches, running from the 20th-23rd of June.

MACCT actor Jayme Wojciechowski is working on a very interesting sounding piece entitled Lethe.  Check out his blog here.

One of the four directors on the course, Andrew McGregor, has been working on his comedy 'The Rise and Fall of Lucas Petite' over the last week.  His blog is here, there's an accompanying mockumentary to the piece that's definitely worth a look!

We'll keep you posted of more works in progress for this festival in the next few days as we really start to get stuck into rehearsals.

Another great event that a number of actors and directors have been involved in is the National Theatre of Scotland's 5 Minute Theatre. Check out actress Rose McPhilemy, directed by Claire Moyer, performing a short monologue by Tennessee Williams to an audience on the other side of the world via Skype.

Aaaand finally here's the 5 minute version of Lucas Petite, filmed today in the RSAMD.