Filumena rehearsal diary – week three

Now past the half-way point, Jane fills us in on Filumena rehearsals.

Filumena rehearsal diary – week two

Assistant Director Jane Fallowfield recaps the events of week two of the Filumena rehearsals. Questions are slowly being answered and costumes being measured. There’s also a discussion about appropriate levels of facial hair…

Filumena rehearsal diary – week one

Last week the Filumena cast joined us to start rehearsals on this delightful tale that will transport the audience to 1940s Naples. As Assistant Director to Michael Attenborough, Jane Fallowfield will be watching their every move with an eagle eye and sharing each weeks developments with us. Here’s her first diary entry which sounds like they had a very successful week!

Telling Tales rehearsal diary

As Assistant Director on Telling Tales Jasmin Anderson has seen the rehearsal process from a whole new perspective. A member of our Young Friend of the Almeida scheme Jasmin has performed as part of a company before, but this is the first time she has been so thoroughly involved in all the details of putting a production on stage.  

Telling Tales – a new play for young audiences

Between 8 – 10 February the Almeida will be venturing into new territory and staging a play for ages 7 – 11. Telling Tales takes the themes from our main house production, The House of Bernarda Alba, and makes them relevant to a younger audience. Below is a piece written by Jo Buffery who has been writing the Telling Tales resource pack for schools. Through conversations with Oladipo Agboluaje she finds out how Telling Tales responds to Bernarda Alba, how to write for a young audience and how he discovered his passion.

The House of Bernarda Alba cast Q&A

With the run of The House of Bernarda Alba off to a flying start, we thought we would seize the opportunity to pick the brains of the cast and explore what brought them here to the Almeida. The cast were all very generous with their insightful and detailed responses and it appears we have an avid Almeida-goer in our presence!

Reasons To Be Pretty Talkback

Reasons To Be Pretty is the final part of Neil LaBute’s trilogy of plays that explore our perception of beauty and image interplaying the relationships between men and women. It’s been said that it’s the more humane play out of the trilogy. We have a Talkback during each run of a production at the Almeida where the audience can discuss the production with the cast. Here we have some highlights from the Reasons To Be Pretty Talkback. 

The House of Bernarda Alba rehearsal diary – week two

Assistant Director, Monica Bofill, keeps us up to date with The House of Bernarda Alba rehearsals in her second diary piece.

The House of Bernarda Alba – rehearsal diary week one

Last week we were joined by the 10-strong female cast of The House of Bernarda Alba. All the way from Barcelona, our Assistant Director, Monica Bofill, will be sitting by Bijan Sheibani’s side in rehearsals and sharing the events of each week with us here.

Reasons To Be Pretty – Neil LaBute

Reasons To Be Pretty completes Neil LaBute’s accidental trilogy on beauty and how our physical appearence affects others and our own perception of our selves. Whilst Neil was here for rehearsals we spoke to him about the play and tried to find out which of the characters he most identifies with…