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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/36tA-NcICpo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/5839221934520638736/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=5839221934520638736" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/5839221934520638736" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/5839221934520638736" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/36tA-NcICpo/new-jens-please.php" title="New Jens please" /><author><name>Tom Crawshaw</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06095211242659319044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10365916787348525532" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2009/07/new-jens-please.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-332968054051913814</id><published>2009-05-08T18:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T18:55:18.305+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="interactivity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="comedy trio" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="announcements" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="buxton" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="buxton fringe" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adventure time" /><title type="text">WARNING: Comedy Trio descend on Buxton!</title><content type="html">Exciting news, as well as bringing &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Play On Words&lt;/span&gt; back to Buxton, Three's Company will be bringing two new episodes of their interactive-comedy-radio-show &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Live Transmission of Adventure Time&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3C's alter-ego Comedy Trio attempt to record Episodes 3 and 4 of their spooftastic radio comedy, but a late actress, broken CDs, script malfunctions and a large dollop of over-ambition see the audience dragged in to save the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join Tom, Yaz and I (as Jon, Jazz and Martin (playing Nigel, Ronnie and Archie)) with a special guest appearance from Buxton favourite &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kayleigh McDonald&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://undergroundvenues.co.uk/shows/adventuretime"&gt;Click here to book&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This summer, Noir is the new Black!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-332968054051913814?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/ljgaqaaDro4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/332968054051913814/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=332968054051913814" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/332968054051913814" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/332968054051913814" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/ljgaqaaDro4/warning-comedy-trio-descend-on-buxton.php" title="WARNING: Comedy Trio descend on Buxton!" /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2009/05/warning-comedy-trio-descend-on-buxton.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-6609687602110126404</id><published>2009-05-05T01:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T01:51:00.357+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="announcements" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="play on words" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="buxton fringe" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="edinburgh" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2009 tour" /><title type="text">Announcement: Summer Tour 2009</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After a hard month of negotiations, we're very proud to announce  confirmed plans for &lt;em&gt;Three's Company's&lt;/em&gt; 2009 Summer Tour&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;div class="flexisize" style="width:300px !important;" align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://threescompany.co.uk/_images/misc/rotating.gif" style="border:0 !important;"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;By popular demand, 2007's award-winning, sell-out hit &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/shows/playonwords/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Play On Words&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will return, starring all three of &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/people/michael"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Grady-Hall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/people/tom"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom Crawshaw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/people/yaz"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yaz Al-Shaater&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. We're over the moon to be performing a full show &lt;strong&gt;together again for the first time since 2005&lt;/strong&gt;! In an act of reckless hubris, we have further decided to rotate the three male roles (Fred, Eddie &amp;amp; Jonnie) so we each play a &lt;strong&gt;different part each night&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="box" align="center"&gt;&lt;div class="box-content polaroid"&gt;&lt;img src="http://threescompany.co.uk/_images/shows/playonwords/pow_on_white.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are particularly pleased to announce that the show has been chosen to appear at the &lt;a href="http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pleasance Dome&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://www.edfringe.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edinburgh Fringe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - a venue which has hosted such internationally famous acts as &lt;em&gt;Cheek By Jowl&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Royal Shakespeare Company&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The League Of Gentlemen&lt;/em&gt;, Bill Bailey, and &lt;em&gt;The Mighty Boosh&lt;/em&gt;. We'll be there, as part of the world's biggest arts festival, every day from &lt;strong&gt;5th - 31st August&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course we'll be bringing the show home to the &lt;a href="http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/"&gt;Buxton Fringe&lt;/a&gt; in July as well - where we'll also be running a cracking line up at &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://undergroundvenues.co.uk/"&gt;Underground Venues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - and to London in June (venue tbc). There also plans to take the show further after Edinburgh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're very proud to welcome &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/people/mariam"&gt;Mariam Bell&lt;/a&gt; (who you may have seen in our mini-play &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/shows/dreams/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dreams May Come&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) who will be taking the role of Jen for the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This does not, however, mean that our other work on &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/shows/adventuretime/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adventure Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the development of &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/shows/auditorium/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Auditorium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has been put on hold. Workshops will continue over the next few months - so look for announcements soon!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, our thanks to all those in our all-new &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/support/"&gt;Support Scheme&lt;/a&gt; - who have made, and continue to make, this work possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-6609687602110126404?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/IFVyjaYDoo0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/3688463360094081897/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=3688463360094081897" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/3688463360094081897" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/3688463360094081897" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/IFVyjaYDoo0/lost-work-of-tom-crawshaw.php" title="The Lost Work of Tom Crawshaw" /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2009/04/lost-work-of-tom-crawshaw.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-8184603472237679013</id><published>2009-03-29T22:52:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T16:37:56.145+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="competitions" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tom" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="play on words" /><title type="text">Highland Word Play</title><content type="html">Tom's award winning play is to be performed again outside of Three's Company. After productions in London, Oxford, Texas and others &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/shows/playonwords"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Play On Words&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is to be performed by LTS Productions in &lt;strong&gt;Carlisle&lt;/strong&gt;. After &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2007/03/cameron-mackintosh-award.php"&gt;winning the Cameron Mackintosh &lt;strong&gt;New Writing Award&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Tom's play has garnered interest across the globe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Three's Company's 2006 production, many companies have been interested in reproducing the work. If you want to see the play before it gets too expensive get along to the LTS Production!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The production runs in Carlisle on the 2nd &amp;amp; 3rd of April, so get along to The Green Room Theatre and see a bit of '&lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2007/08/another-review-and-all-others.php"&gt;Stoppard for the Gondry generation&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS. Although I would have loved to, I have not been able to add a Macbeth joke in this blog post, I've reread the whole thing and couldn't find a thing, not even in the obvious Porter and Tomorrow speeches... but go see &lt;em&gt;Play on Words&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2/4/09:&lt;/strong&gt; Michael &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; hid a rather &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2333313991" target="_blank"&gt;major geographic misconception&lt;/a&gt; in the above post. If you can spot it, you could win &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/fun/prizes"&gt;a cool prize&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;em&gt;-3C&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-8184603472237679013?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Book soon, they're prone to selling out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/midnight-matinee/' target='_blank'&gt;The Midnight Matinees&lt;/a&gt; are an acclaimed monthly showcase for new work, featuring scratch performances a time. So for your fiver, you'll also get to see a reading of a new play by Royal Court writer Dean Stalham and a performance by &lt;a href='http://www.bottlefed.org/'&gt;Total Theatre nominees &lt;em&gt;Bottlefed Ensemble&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Talk about value for money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, a sneak preview of our Intro:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script language="JavaScript" src="/_scripts/wpaudioplayer/audio-player.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/_scripts/wpaudioplayer/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://threescompany.co.uk/_scripts/wpaudioplayer/player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&amp;amp;soundFile= http://threescompany.co.uk/_audio/adventuretime/intro.mp3"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;param name="menu" value="false"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find out more &lt;a href='http://threescompany.co.uk/shows/adventuretime'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-7094054119038760535?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Obviously I haven't seen the production yet..." I knew the guys performing in the show would have some interesting stories after that evenings performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a great thing it is to have a show like this at the UK's &lt;strong&gt;National Theatre&lt;/strong&gt;. Inspiring debate, and showing up an audience's prejudice. As one of the actors said after that night's performance &lt;blockquote&gt;It's always interesting to see where and when the audience laughs, 'cause it really does show which bits of all the shit we throw stick to them.&lt;/blockquote&gt; That is, it shows where &lt;em&gt;their &lt;/em&gt;prejudices are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recently read &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/yasmin-alibhaibrown-laughing-at-england-people-very-nice-left-me-with-a-nasty-taste-in-my-mouth-1637583.html"&gt;Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's interesting article on the &lt;em&gt;Independent&lt;/em&gt;'s website&lt;/a&gt;. She asks why the National should produce this kind of work, admittedly not admonishing the fact the piece has been created as many others have. Surely, the answer is that the play is intended to reveal to the National's audiences their personal prejudice (in most cases after they have left the theatre and are on their way home) much in the same way &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_(musical)" target="_blank"&gt;Peter Nichols' &lt;em&gt;Poppy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; attacked its - mostly middle class - audience's personal (and collective) latent racism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hussain Ismail's gripe (when I saw him) specifically with the National was that it was not having a real debate. Mr. Ismail later stormed &lt;a href="http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/42839/platforms/richard-bean-on-emengland-people-very-niceem.html" target="_blank"&gt;Richard Bean's Platform&lt;/a&gt; on the 27th (calling him a racist) and called for a chair to be set for him and others and to turn the Platform into a 'proper debate'. He continued to argue his case for half of the Platform's allocated time and didn't let others speak, perhaps a little hypocritical of him? I agree debate should be encouraged, but shouldn't it include the whole audience, not just one outspoken objector?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom told me about &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/mar/05/rabina-khan-national-theatre" target="_blank"&gt;Rabina Khan's letter to the Guardian&lt;/a&gt; saying she had read the script and after joining Mr. Ismail's protest, went to see &lt;em&gt;England People Very Nice&lt;/em&gt; and found it considerably more offensive than she first expected. She says: &lt;blockquote&gt;at one point a character in the play used the term "nigger" and everybody burst out laughing. My daughter asked why people were laughing at the word "nigger". She understood it to be offensive.&lt;/blockquote&gt; Tom pointed out that this was a strange reason to take umbrage with the production: it was the audience who were acting in a manner she found unacceptable, and which the creators of the work could hardly control. No matter how carefully a writer or director might choose the tone of such a controversial work, an audience with different views/experiences will always have the possibility to alter this - especially in a comedy where they necessarily make such a vocal contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought this linked well to the ideas behind our work as a company. The effect our plays have on an audience and their reactions to what they experience have always been our primary focus. This is why comedy (where laughter is both the main aim and something react to) and interactivity (that obviously hangs on the interplay with the audience) have become major areas of our work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, a lot of interesting debate has been inspired. This is so essential for the development and continued importance of theatre. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and come see me in &lt;em&gt;Burnt by the Sun&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/rbUC15rX80g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/5595891183371062344/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=5595891183371062344" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/5595891183371062344" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/5595891183371062344" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/rbUC15rX80g/england-person-inspire-controversy-we.php" title="England Person Inspire Controversy (we join the debate!)" /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2009/03/england-person-inspire-controversy-we.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-3387357366488086551</id><published>2009-02-09T15:12:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-03-10T09:00:41.255Z</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="interactivity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="theory" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="essays" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="interactive thoughts" /><title type="text">"The Immediate Future" (part 2)</title><content type="html">&lt;h3&gt;The continuation of an essay on the future of theatre...&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is one of &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/labels/interactive%20thoughts.php"&gt;a series of blog posts&lt;/a&gt; about interactive theatre and theory behind our work in this field.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A large amount of theatre about today, though highly impressive, enjoyable and successful, does not embrace, does not exploit this unique element - the immediacy of theatre. A typical play – by Alan Ayckbourne, David Hare, Arthur Miller or David Mamet – for instance, is obviously different from a filming or radio recording of the same events but does not capitalise on the fact the audience are right there in front of the actors. Good performers will live the performance anew each night and should be alive to the psychology of the audience on that night but, even in the best circumstances it is hard to see how this will have much effect on the actual events. The audience posses a very small number of acceptable audible reactions they can have, in order to communicate their feelings to the actors, who then have a very tight framework within which they can react to these signals. Although the audience are but feet away, the actors are much more directly affected by the script, the set, the director’s notes from the night before and their fellow performers on stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even more experimental theatre – such as site-specific work – does not usually embrace this immediacy. Walking amongst the audience, and allowing them to move amongst the actors, merely changes the physical position between them and does not use this immediacy to any effect. In some site-specific pieces, the audience is so free that they can choose which characters - and which stories – to follow. Although such ‘interactivity’ gives a lot of power to the individual audience member and is an exciting development it still does not embrace the immediacy of theatre. Indeed, television, although completely removed from the person watching it, has this form of interaction in spade-fulls: one can now choose from potentially hundreds of different ‘stories’ and, in some cases, even what camera angle they are seen from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not to say that any of the above are bad theatre and should not happen. Clearly, a wide range of people get a lot of enjoyment and are profoundly affected by such theatre and it is a means for communicating important issues of today. However, without in some way embracing immediacy, and clearly marking its territory as distinct from film, television and radio, theatre could easily become just “another form” of entertainment or storytelling. It is therefore important for at least some branches of theatre to explore and embrace the nature of theatre as immediate performance, immediate art, or immediate entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are, then, a number of branches that do do exactly this. Comedy theatre capitalises on the immediacy of the audience. By laughing – or not – the audience at a comedy can drastically change a performance, making it a unique event, which the audience are a part of. In some comedy scenes, the audience literally plays another ‘character’ who interjects lines at certain points – saying them louder or for longer and in different places each night. Such a 'character' must be listened to carefully, and can affect the performance, almost as much as an actor in the piece itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plays which include moments of ‘audience interaction’ also make some – limited – use of the immediate audience. Pantomime dialogue with the audience follows formulas but will change depending on what people shout out, and in some plays entire conversations are held with audience members. Just like the reaction of actors to a laughing audience, these moments could not happen in an art from which was not immediate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such types of immediacy are by no means a modern phenomenon – indeed they seem to be more common in British theatre's earlier stages. Soliloquies, it is thought, in Shakespeare’s day, were always spoken directly to members of the audience. Although there is no place in Shakespeare for them to respond – and tell Othello not to kill Desdemona – the effect on those individuals is important, noteworthy – and unique to theatre as an immediate art-form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These features, although still present in many pieces of theatre, do seem to be comparatively rare in mainstream theatre today; they are often small aspects of plays and, more importantly, do not appear to be a part of the current movements of today’s theatre. Few modern practitioners appear to be concerned to create theatre which allows more opportunities for embracing the immediacy of theatre to its audience - and in more ways. Instead of merely talking to the audience at certain points or being receptive to their mood, theatre needs to include works that fully embrace the audience and all they can potentially do to an art-work. To embrace the unique feature that immediacy brings – that the work can affect the audience and the audience can affect the work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As people increasingly turn to television and film for their dramatic stories and entertainment, it is precisely theatre which embraces its unique features that will remain relevant and necessary. Whist the full gamut of theatre genres is sure to remain, we should expect the newest developments to be in the area of developing and exploring immediacy. This might involve actors working to become more aware of their audience, it might involve a growth in live comedy – but it should also be expected to involve theatre performances (plays as well as less conventional performances) that make the most of the audiences presence, right there in the same place as the performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which, incidentally, is about where our show for this year's summer tour comes in...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is one of &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/labels/interactive%20thoughts.php"&gt;a series of blog posts&lt;/a&gt; about interactive theatre and theory behind our work in this field.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. 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The breadth of culture and the desire for new stories and experiences seems more than capable of supporting a wide range of art forms. It seems to me however that, in order to maintain a place as one of the main players in British culture, theatre still needs to develop an identity, distinct from television, radio and film. Furthermore, this identity is one which is yet to be fully embraced – and can give us the best indication of the future direction of theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite its successful co-existence, the need for theatre to justify its existence in the face of television, radio and film can be seen in the history of the previous century. Prior to the prevalence of recording and broadcasting technology, the last major development in theatre was naturalism. Television and film however are a much better, if not perfect, medium for realism. Since the first emergence of popular film in the early 1920s, theatre instantly retreated from the pursuit of realism, with such practitioners as Brecht, Artaud, Dario Fo and Grotowski at the helm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To identify the identity of theatre, as distinct from film, television and radio, we can start by considering what the distinct feature of theatre is not. It is not, for instance, theatre’s ability to convey and discuss complex philosophical, moral or political ideas. Certainly, theatre has a tradition for being more wordy and thoughtful than its bright, action-packed brothers - film and television. Presumably this is a result of the classism of the arts – with the middle classes and intelligentsia more likely visit the theatre (and opera) than the working classes for whom television and film are more relevant. This picture can be seen to be blurring today, with film and television clearly up to the task of delivering thoughtful and intellectually complex works. Certainly however, we must admit that there is nothing essential to theatre that makes it any more suited to complex or intellectual writing than any other form; if this is currently the case, it is the result of circumstance and we can’t necessarily expect it to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although commonly cited, the essentially live nature of theatre cannot be seen to be its distinguishing feature either. Certainly, theatre performances have a somewhat special quality because you know they are being performed as you see them – and the experience is therefore unique (at least temporally). The event you are witnessing is linked, inextricably, to the evening you have chosen to witness it. But theatre by no means has the monopoly here. Many TV shows are recorded the same evening they are broadcast and many, such as morning shows and the news – go out live. Most radio stations obviously go out live as well, giving the same sense of excitement and enabling phone-ins. A recent episode of ‘Two Pints Of Larger And A Packet Of Crisps’ was even broadcast live on TV – the result being as dull as any of the other episodes, despite the novelty that things could go wrong at any point. Technological limitations in early television in fact meant that all dramas had to be performed and broadcast live – and yet there was no danger that this would render theatre unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being a medium for intellectual ideas and being live, then, cannot be seen to be the key to theatre’s distinct identity. Which feature then should we be concentrating on? The best offer to me seems to be immediacy. All theatre performance is fundamentally immediate: it happens right before you, in the same room or area of ground. Immediacy is not only necessary (being live is at least necessary) but it is also sufficient and unique. Any artistic performance which is immediate must be some form of theatre, and such immediacy cannot be recreated by film, radio or television.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;...to be continued...&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is one of &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/labels/interactive%20thoughts.php"&gt;a series of blog posts&lt;/a&gt; about interactive theatre and theory behind our work in this field.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/vRm64NBsMw8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/791542315556169642/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=791542315556169642" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/791542315556169642" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/791542315556169642" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/vRm64NBsMw8/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.php" title="Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year" /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2008/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-3346589392041873707</id><published>2008-12-09T01:29:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-03-10T08:59:31.947Z</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="michael" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="new writing" /><title type="text">Michael Gets Freudian</title><content type="html">(Our very own) Michael Grady-Hall will be appearing in the &lt;strong&gt;staged reading&lt;/strong&gt; of Nicky Silvers dark comedy, as part of StoneCrabs' New Directors Play Readings 2008. It's &lt;strong&gt;this Thursday&lt;/strong&gt; (the 11th December) at the &lt;strong&gt;Albany Theatre&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;Deptford&lt;/strong&gt; - sorry about the short notice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He will be playing Bishop (the lead) in a piece called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fat Men In Skirts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;How I Ate My Father And Slept With My Mother&lt;/em&gt;) by Nicky Silver, dir. Victor Essess. Anyone wondering how that state of affairs is reached (such as myself) should get along - I believe it is pretty cheap but Michael doesn't know for sure. We'll see you there!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-3346589392041873707?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/ejxcYiJ27MA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/6340625650827457394/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=6340625650827457394" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/6340625650827457394" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/6340625650827457394" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/ejxcYiJ27MA/threes-company-hit-west-end.php" title="Three's Company hit the West End" /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2008/11/threes-company-hit-west-end.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-6165215369223422165</id><published>2008-10-30T21:22:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-10-31T09:17:11.038Z</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="halloween" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="costume" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fun" /><title type="text">Happy Hallowe'en!</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/HalloweenTrio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 212px;" src="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/HalloweenTrio.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Hallowe'en to all our friends and countrymen!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having trouble thinking of a costume this year? Never fear, Three's Company's here...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just follow these simple steps for a unique last minute costume:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; text-align: center; width: 120px; margin: 0pt 30px 0pt 0pt; font-size:0.8em;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/Halloween-MicMask.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/Halloween-MicThumb.jpg" alt="Michael Grady-Skull" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Grady-Skull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/Halloween-TomMask.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/Halloween-TomThumb.jpg" alt="Tomenstein's Monster" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomenstein's Monster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/Halloween-YazMask.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://threescompany.co.uk/images/misc/seasonal/Halloween-YazThumb.jpg" alt="Count Al-Shaater" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Count Al-Shaater&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="clear:right"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Choose your favourite member of Three's Company - Tom, Michael, or Yaz.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Download the appropriate mask&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Print it out. You may wish to enlarge it using a photocopier if you've got a big head.&lt;li&gt;Cut around the dotted lines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Using a sharp object, make some eyeholes that line up with your eyes. &lt;small&gt;For best results, don't do this whilst wearing the mask.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Find a way to attach it to your head - elastic is recommended but sellotape might do the trick if you're desperate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Go out and spook your friends!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Send us some photos of yourself dressed like this, and we might just put them on our blog...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-6165215369223422165?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/orM7XZbuxUw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/7884219064015400835/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=7884219064015400835" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/7884219064015400835" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/7884219064015400835" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/orM7XZbuxUw/3c-at-buxton-opera-house.php" title="3C at the Buxton Opera House" /><author><name>Tom Crawshaw</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06095211242659319044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10365916787348525532" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2008/09/3c-at-buxton-opera-house.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-7768653947778882592</id><published>2008-09-04T02:39:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T17:43:40.544Z</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trouble in pantoland" /><title type="text">Hav'st thine self a Merry Little Christmas.</title><content type="html">Three's Company have been talking about possible &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Christmas&lt;/span&gt; shows for next year. The three of us are at the start of devising and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;work shopping&lt;/span&gt; a possible production for the festive season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After rereading our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;unofficial&lt;/span&gt; first production 'Trouble in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Pantoland&lt;/span&gt;' we have decided to work on a pantomime to try to introduce young people to the wonderful world of Shakespeare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ladies and Gentleman 'Shakespeare in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Pantoland&lt;/span&gt;'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Dogberry&lt;/span&gt; (from 'Much Ado') as Widow &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Twankey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viola (from 'Twelfth Night') as Prince Charming&lt;br /&gt;and introducing&lt;br /&gt;Richard III as the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Sheriff&lt;/span&gt; of Nottingham!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-7768653947778882592?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/PpTNxlty7YM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/7768653947778882592/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=7768653947778882592" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/7768653947778882592" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/7768653947778882592" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/PpTNxlty7YM/havst-thine-self-merry-little-christmas.php" title="Hav'st thine self a Merry Little Christmas." /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2008/09/havst-thine-self-merry-little-christmas.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-7177569061930555319</id><published>2008-09-01T20:22:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T02:38:38.546Z</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="othello" /><title type="text">More Shakespeare for 3C</title><content type="html">Discussions are underway for Three's Company to mount another 'Othello' like production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since our &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;success&lt;/span&gt; in the Pauper's Pit Theatre with Othello in 2004, we have wanted to stage another of the great Elizabethan Verse plays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As well as our wish to re-stage our version of Shakespeare's Othello set in 'Iago's theatre of Mass Destruction' 3C are planning more...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...including...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-a production of Macbeth - discussions are &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;beginning&lt;/span&gt; with actress Mariam Bell to appear as 'Lady Macbeth'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Romeo and Juliet, with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Yaz&lt;/span&gt; as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Mercutio&lt;/span&gt;, Tom as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Benvolio&lt;/span&gt; and me as Romeo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- and (ever since performing a section of the brilliant Arden of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Faversham&lt;/span&gt; at TheShakespeare's Globe's Sam Wanamaker Festival this year), I'm desperate to get a production up and running of the brilliant anonymously-written black-comedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who knows which will come first!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-7177569061930555319?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/threescompany/~4/vGPpAEcf3i0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/7177569061930555319/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7770875630360893045&amp;postID=7177569061930555319" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/7177569061930555319" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7770875630360893045/posts/default/7177569061930555319" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/threescompany/~3/vGPpAEcf3i0/more-shakespeare-for-3c.php" title="More Shakespeare for 3C" /><author><name>Michael Grady-Hall</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18431634160938855773</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="02732501800266948402" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://threescompany.co.uk/blog/2008/10/more-shakespeare-for-3c.php</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7770875630360893045.post-2322382342621795748</id><published>2008-08-25T23:55:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T08:59:35.658Z</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="interactivity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008 tour" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="auditorium" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="edinburgh" /><title type="text">The Auditorium is now closed.</title><content type="html">So that's the end of another Edinburgh Fringe. And what a great one it was too. I'm so sorry that I couldn't have been up there for longer because I know everyone had such a brilliant time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations to David, Will, Kate, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Amr&lt;/span&gt;, Ben, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Kayleigh&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Ceili&lt;/span&gt;, John and Jo. And of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;course&lt;/span&gt; to Tom and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Yaz&lt;/span&gt; for another Edinburgh success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to everyone who came to see the show, and you guys that didn't... well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure this is not the end for Auditorium, keep you're eyes on the website for more exciting interactive theatre experimentation!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk/blog"&gt;Three's Company Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Find out more about &lt;strong&gt;Three's Company&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href="http://threescompany.co.uk" title="Three's Company - the award winning three man fringe theatre company"&gt;http://threescompany.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7770875630360893045-2322382342621795748?l=threescompany.co.uk%2Fblog%2Findex.php'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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