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Our next destination will be this summer solstice weekend😍 your favorite witches are back at it again and another special guest celebrity, Adam Berry will also be there as well. So come on down if you guys don’t have anything to do on this summer solstice weekend @bewitchedbuffalo #idancewithwitches #bewitchedbuffalo #fairywitch #fun #adamberry
We got to spend the whole day at Graestone manor because of our dance performance. Funny thing is we got to chat with Adam Berry today and help him cool off because it was so ungodly hot #bewitchedbuffalo #idancewithwitches #buffalony #buffalo #dance #supportlocalwitches #adamberry #witchyvibes #witchy #graestonemanor
One of the more fascinating parts of my discussion with Adam Berry was his view on how to approach a ghost. It all starts with an introducti
One of the more fascinating parts of my discussion with Adam Berry was his view on how to approach a ghost. It all starts with an introduction… just like you're entering a party. https://youtube.com/shorts/w9FHoMczrvg
Watch the podcast now on YouTube (see related video link) or stream wherever you get your podcasts.
@adamberry talks about a poignant interaction with a fan whose curiosity about the Other Side helped spark the inspiration for his new book,
Adam Berry talks about a poignant interaction with a fan whose curiosity about the Other Side helped spark the inspiration for his new book, “Goodbye, Hello.”
Watch the full episode now on YouTube https://youtu.be/_9jkWD_N5l0 or listen anywhere you get your podcasts.
After several months of production, the first episode of my podcast is available! Watch it now on Youtube. https://youtu.be/_9jkWD_N5l0
#peregrinetheaterensemble is back in town!! #adamberry #kindrespirits (at Provincetown Theater)
The First Day of Rehearsals
Monday the 25th February rolled round and I made my way to Waterloo for The First Day of Rehearsals.
I got to the Theatre and I knew to make my way to Rehearsal Room 2 - where we have spent all of our rehearsal time for Othello.
I went through the stage door and made my way to Rehearsal Room 2. The theatre has many inspirational corridors throught it. As I walked down the multi coloured corridor I was reminded of when I was 16 and followed the brilliant Richard Griffiths here when he was performing The History Boys. I was fortunate enough to be work shopping a new play in Rehearsal Room 1.
This particular corridor is one of crazy multi coloured lights and has always left an impression of awe and wonder on me - as well as always making me feel ready to be creative:
The rehearsal room is well sign posted and so I made my way through the corridors saying hello to everyone I met:
I then came across the big pink doors to Rehearsal Room 2 and stepped in. I was presented with a fairly empty room as once again I was ridiculously early. I introduced myself to the amazing Stage Management team and made a cup of tea.
(This is right outside the rehearsal room. I'm not sure we use the red light at the moment)
Slowly but surely other company members started to arrive and we began to chat and introduce ourselves. Then Staff Members of the Theatre turned up and before we knew it there were a hundred people all in the rehearsal room. Half past ten rolled round and Nicholas asked us all to get into a circle, and we then went round and introduced ourselves one by one.
Next we sat down and looked at the model of the set. Nicholas and the Stage Management team explained to us how the set was going to work, and the reasons behind their choices. Nicholas outlined his own vision for the play and discussed his own ideas on Othello. It was great having waited a whole week to finally be able to start immersing myself in not only the subjects, themes and views on this wonderful play, but to also have in mind what story we were going to tell; It was and always is a part of Rehearsals that is very exciting.
(Above: The doors to Rehearsal Room Two)
Then we all sat down to read the play. I always find first readings really fun, as finally you get to hear and see the diffident characters at work and follow all of their journeys. Whereas when I read the play on my own I usually just follow one character.
This reading was no different. The whole company were making me hear phrases I had missed when I read it on my own, and as I didn't have anything to say at this early stage of Rehearsals, it was so lovely to sit back and just listen to an amazing cast read an amazing play.
After the read-through we then went off to sort out our National Theatre passes and to get fitted for our costumes then we were free to go home.
Many of the cast members are actors who have worked at the National Theatre before, and some were performing in The Captain of Kopenick at the same time as rehearsing Othello. For myself and a few others it is our First show here. .
At times I felt like the new boy at school, but I must admit, as first days at new jobs go, this one will always take a lot of beating.
(Below: An example of many of the corridors at the National Theatre with iconic images from past productions at the theatre)
The First "I got it!!!"
Having finished the recall I then started to prepare for the weekend. I figured I wasn’t going to hear until Monday at the earliest – as I knew rehearsals didn’t start for a fortnight.
In my spare time I am a football referee for Essex County FA and I knew I was being assessed that afternoon for my promotion up a level. So I woke up on the Saturday and was just getting dressed and my work phone started ringing.
I thought “What a pain…” I don’t want to be answering calls from work at 0930 on a Saturday morning – also the phone didn’t recognise the number.
So I answered it and to my genuine surprise it was my agent. I asked him what was up and he started to say that I wouldn’t be able to drink as much as I would like at a party we were attending the following Sunday. I thought nothing of it and said, “Ok that’s fine”.
Then slowly, very slowly I started to piece it together…
“Why?” I hesitantly asked
“ Because you start rehearsals on Monday”
“What? For Othello??? You’re joking”
Now if you have read any of my previous posts I am sure you are aware of what happens next
“WOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
I couldn’t believe it. I was genuinely over the moon. I had a feeling that the auditions had gone well and inside I had felt quietly confident about it all. My girlfriend said to me when I informed her I got the job, she said that she’d a good feeling about it all along, and that somehow she knew I was going to get it.
(Above: My Girlfriend)
It’s a feeling I am always wary of to be honest – often you feel great about an audition process, and for some reason or another you never hear about it ever again. It really hurts as well when you don’t. But I have learnt to manage this feeling, to try and avoid the disappointment when it doesn’t go my way.
Later that day I remember sitting in the changing room of my match, and I just couldn’t stop myself from smiling. I was so happy. It was everything I wanted and more. A story entered my head from when I got my first set of headshots done (when I was at the Drama Centre London) I said to Charlie Carter – the photographer – that I couldn’t ever stop acting until I had spoken Shakespeare on the Olivier stage – and now it was going to come true in 2013.
(Above: My First Professional Headshot)
What followed the great news was a week of excitement, nervousness and apprehension. I would dream about rehearsals, I wanted to tell the whole world, but I couldn’t until the job had begun.
A lot of work still had to be done as well. I had to prepare for not being able to do my day job for the next six months, which luckily, as I run the company isn’t the worst thing in the world, and my wonderful Mother again stepped up saying she would help along with the day to day operation. My staff members were really supportive about it all as well – and I spent the whole week putting into place all the things I needed to sort out ready for six months at the National.
We got emails from the Stage Management team outlining the whole First Day of rehearsals and what we would need to be prepared for, and I had to do my own preparations as an actor as well – as the First Day was the First read-through.
The first thing I did was work on my script. I ran to the nearest stationary shop and bought a nice big Pukka Pad so that I could stick my script in. I knew I was in the Ensemble for the play but wasn’t sure who I would be Understudying so I needed to prep every page as if I had lines on it as well.
(Above: My Script)
The week seemed quite long; as I would have expected. But the day finally rolled round and The First Day of Rehearsals were upon me…
