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some end of run notes:

some of this is actually time sensitive and some of it is just stuff i keep forgetting to post about

there was this hateful late stage development in the almost kiss beat in the first agony where it was less comedy teetering and more comedy .... inclining in naturally and expectantly. i shan’t speak

BEREFT at no ollie for closing, obviously, tells and i have been Handling it all day, but the thing is that i feel so, so, so lucky that we were there on friday when he and chumisa were both suddenly back and gabrielle and sophie both had their last scheduled covers - in retrospect i think it's obvious that both ollie and chumisa were also treating it like potentially their last time out of an abundance of caution, and it was such a perfect, slightly feverish show

horrible wolf noises, unhinged agonies - this dreadful high kick made an appearance all last week on you are everything maidens could wish for, So That Was Good, their wobbliest i shall always love the maiden who ran away / and i the faraway prince ever, chumisa sobbing and sobbing on sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. tender stroking at curtain call again and then the most joyous ollie and chumisa race offstage, just a really really perfect night. i feel very lucky!

hughie sent me insane at the last matinee by adding "and a hungry little girl" to the once upon a time dialogue and gracie did such a face about it and i loved it. a really good textual intervention! my king! his best no more ever for me twice in one day, really great stuff

so much nuzzling in it takes two! he's very gentle with her in it except when they're throwing each other about and it's upsetting!

i DID post about this already but chumisa's cinderella they/themming jack felt soooo deliberate to me having missed it for most of the week and i love it so much

jack being sooo awed and THRILLED by the witch transformation so moving and good imo

rhys and gracie squeezing each other's hands on the penultimate i think i see a glimmer, bad

bella on the point of tears all week and being jollied along in the background via a lot of face pulling, a lot of unpleasant hip rolls, etc, except then she and rhys were just having a proper collapsed hug at the end of the last ever after. Which Killed Me

i feel crazy about mel's witch generally, i think it is such an unbelievably good performance, but her visibly getting her hunch back at the end of last midnight and the way the realisation of this flowed into realising rapunzel has come to get her is going to stick with me forever probably!!

all week there were sooooo many lovely moments where you could see people - i'm being general bc i don't think there's anyone i didn't clock an instance of this with! - quietly checking in with each other or looking rueful about how everyone was about to cry or just breaking slightly to look fond while they weren't the focal point of a scene. sooooo much care across the whole company, very very moving. it actually kind of felt like there was such an excess of general tenderness through the week that everyone had kind of become relatively normal again by closing and the emotional intensity there was back to being about the piece, which was in many ways a relief

i loved my show i loved my company!!!!!

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okay some more final month things i loved

how large "and heir to a THRONE" was getting towards the end

when you'd be able to hear ollie's real voice coming out from under the comedy prince voice on leave - but i do love you -

how differently he and chumisa were playing that scene every night on account of both being properly good straight actors who happen to be in MT

chumisa's martial arts movements on don't come ANY closer TO ME getting sillier and sillier

the deep deep tenderness of gabrielle/chumisa no-one is alone, gabrielle drawing herself up to copy her and doing such nice faces

ollie going god that's awful about florinda's foot and doing a horrible claw hand

rhys' traditional final weeks period of trying out a different stupid vocal choice every night - i was particularly into all of his lines in second midnight delivered through gritted teeth and the increasingly melodic post-blinding noises

every time rhys and bella and ollie would just be having a little chat at the back in ever after during the stepsister interlude

every time jack and the baker were in the tower at the end and hughie would suddenly produce a bunch of new unexpected acting choices like ok so i actually went to RADA just fyi and you'd be like ok great well i am crying

the sense you got that both chumisa and hana's cinderellas were lesbians but for hana's that was really the only reason why living in a castle and being a princess weren't going to work out. for chumisa there were other reasons

how much of a person bella's rapunzel is with the extremely limited stuff she gets to do

it was so easy to miss because jack's mum is dying in the foreground as it happens but mel and rhys giving each other this long, long look before he stumbles off after rapunzel gets crushed. SO good

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ah i thought it'd be cute to see which of #mygirls from itw winter/spring i have old curtain call photos of and these were all so nice and then i was like hm do i have anything from prada as we are now so many years and failures to "back up" to "icloud" away from the phantom days and the answer was, i guess, yes

eldritch horror

maddy falling out of her dress as per usual

this has reminded me that i am living in mortal fear of liv going on as mary in JCS this summer and not being able to get there

ELDRITCH HORROR!

[queer-ragnelle]

Melion | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily

[archivalwork]

Handwritten notes from a student actor's Antigone Chorus member Katie Newton's stage directions c. 1990s Sophocles tr. Bertolt Brecht, edition pub. New York City, 1984

[madetodivinize]

Grape Earrings at Yuhan Wang’s MA Central Saint Martins graduate collection

[frenchcurious]

Rome, via della Conciliazione, 1980 - Photo de Florian Seiffert. Source Memorie di Roma.

[cantikdaae]

Part 2 of the 2021/2022 London Souvenir Brochure

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god i mean the good news is that i’ve completely mellowed out about closing itself but now the regular and normal variety of post show depresso has hit and ha ha ouch!!

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ok well here’s the same gif in a different aspect ratio bc of the additional face acting you get this way. yelling slut like i’m at rocky horror etc. happy closing i guess!

[anxeious]

an edward bawden calendar 1930

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some end of run notes:

some of this is actually time sensitive and some of it is just stuff i keep forgetting to post about

there was this hateful late stage development in the almost kiss beat in the first agony where it was less comedy teetering and more comedy .... inclining in naturally and expectantly. i shan’t speak

BEREFT at no ollie for closing, obviously, tells and i have been Handling it all day, but the thing is that i feel so, so, so lucky that we were there on friday when he and chumisa were both suddenly back and gabrielle and sophie both had their last scheduled covers - in retrospect i think it's obvious that both ollie and chumisa were also treating it like potentially their last time out of an abundance of caution, and it was such a perfect, slightly feverish show

horrible wolf noises, unhinged agonies - this dreadful high kick made an appearance all last week on you are everything maidens could wish for, So That Was Good, their wobbliest i shall always love the maiden who ran away / and i the faraway prince ever, chumisa sobbing and sobbing on sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. tender stroking at curtain call again and then the most joyous ollie and chumisa race offstage, just a really really perfect night. i feel very lucky!

hughie sent me insane at the last matinee by adding "and a hungry little girl" to the once upon a time dialogue and gracie did such a face about it and i loved it. a really good textual intervention! my king! his best no more ever for me twice in one day, really great stuff

so much nuzzling in it takes two! he's very gentle with her in it except when they're throwing each other about and it's upsetting!

i DID post about this already but chumisa's cinderella they/themming jack felt soooo deliberate to me having missed it for most of the week and i love it so much

jack being sooo awed and THRILLED by the witch transformation so moving and good imo

rhys and gracie squeezing each other's hands on the penultimate i think i see a glimmer, bad

bella on the point of tears all week and being jollied along in the background via a lot of face pulling, a lot of unpleasant hip rolls, etc, except then she and rhys were just having a proper collapsed hug at the end of the last ever after. Which Killed Me

i feel crazy about mel's witch generally, i think it is such an unbelievably good performance, but her visibly getting her hunch back at the end of last midnight and the way the realisation of this flowed into realising rapunzel has come to get her is going to stick with me forever probably!!

all week there were sooooo many lovely moments where you could see people - i'm being general bc i don't think there's anyone i didn't clock an instance of this with! - quietly checking in with each other or looking rueful about how everyone was about to cry or just breaking slightly to look fond while they weren't the focal point of a scene. sooooo much care across the whole company, very very moving. it actually kind of felt like there was such an excess of general tenderness through the week that everyone had kind of become relatively normal again by closing and the emotional intensity there was back to being about the piece, which was in many ways a relief

i loved my show i loved my company!!!!!

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some lovely closing week on film, of variable quality, from jacob's insta here

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have an agony from the true closing (aka Friday) [Do Not Repost, share with cast etc. etc.]

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massaging my temples over here …. thank you geoff for the forbidden content …. i’m being BAITED

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have an agony from the true closing (aka Friday) [Do Not Repost, share with cast etc. etc.]

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well i was certainly at the bridge theatre tonight but ….. i had a good closing last night!

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stumbled on this on instagram where of course no one should be posting covert phone boot clips but god i love this part! god i love this show!