Videos: Plague Water and Chit Chat

More rehearsal video!  Michael and Robert rehearse as Kabe/Solomon Eagle and Snelgrave, respectively.

Pardon the Bleep!

A recipe for 'Plague Water'

And, you know, our actors are real people, too, and they talk like real, regular people... during their rehearsal breaks.

Rehearsal Video: Working on Dialect

We've got another rehearsal video for you today!  As the play is set in London, our actors will be using British accents.  In the first video you'll see Anne Thibault (a familiar face of NC Stage) work with Bennie Matesich (a new face making her debut at NC Stage as Morse in One Flea Spare) on one of her monologues. 

What was it they were saying about blood? And how do you pronounce it? Oh, like this? 

And, for fun, here's a link to see some of my favorite young British actors attempt American accents: http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/598083/american-talk-with-josh-horowitz-and-the-harry-potter-cast.jhtml#id=1644133

Enjoy!

Behind the scenes of "One Flea Spare" rehearsal

Check out the videos below to hear director Angie Flynn-McIver and cast members of One Flea Spare discuss the character of Bunce, the sailor. 

And in case you were wondering who's who in the videos and in the play itself, here you go:

Dramatis Personae
aka CAST LIST
Bunce.........................Chris Allison
Morse...................Bennie Matesich
Snelgrave.................Robert Lender
Darcy Snelgrave.........Callan White
Kabe................Michael MacCauley

Director: Angie Flynn-McIver
Assistant Director: Kat Martin
Stage Manager: Connie Silver

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Let's Fa(r)ce It

We here at NC Stage love farce.  Last year we had Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw, and in our earlier years we produced Loot, also by Orton.  The first play Scott & Charlie ever performed in together was one of Marc Camoletti's other famous plays, Don't Dress for Dinner.  Both are fans of the genre and have keen acting skills for farce.  So, today, we have a little treat: I've asked Charlie to interview Scott about farce and why they both love it. Enjoy!

from the 'Bedroom farce' Wikipedia article:

"Boeing Boeing is a classic French farce for the stage by Marc Camoletti. Monopolizing on most of the conventions of farce's canon, it concerns a Parisian playboy bachelor with three international stewardess fiancées he secretly keeps in careful rotation until their flight schedules change and he, along with his provincial friend and sassy maid, must keep them from finding out about each other. Lucky they have enough doors in the apartment to keep the girls unwittingly flitting about for two hours."

Do you like farce? 

Do you have any favorite farces? 

Do you want more farce? Let us know!