Unfortunately, Lindesay is no longer able to be in the production - this is due to some financial/agent issues, and she was very kind and professional about it, even offering to pay for her costume.

I've offered the part to Mona Goodwin, who was spectacular at her audition, but she won't be able to let us know for four weeks, while she gets HER ( Read more... )

I found this dress on eBay while searching for fabric and it is PERFECT for Lindesay (in her Hellanike/Antigone incarnation - there'll be a different one for the Courtesan role).

It was listed at 8 quid and I bid up to 14.50 ... then in the last four minutes, the auction TOOK OFF and I set myself a STRICT limit of 40 pounds.  Which was what I would ( Read more... )

Details:

ALEXANDER AT THE STUDIO AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S:

August 4th, 14.45: Part I
August 5th, 14.45: Part II
August 6th, 14.45: Part I
August 7th, 14.45: Part II
August 8th, 14.45: Part I
August 9th, 14.45: Part II
August 10th, 14.45: Part I

AUGUST 11th: DAY OFF

August 12th, 14.45: Part I AGAIN - NOTE DISCREPANCY
August 13th, 14.45: Part II
August 14th, 14.45: ( Read more... )

And the venue doesn't.  Our deadline for the discount rate to get our listing in the programme is the 31st of March.  For this, I need the exact dates and times of our performances.  On 5th March, the venue said they'd be moving into the contract phase "next week."  It is now the 21st and I've heard NOTHING from them ( Read more... )

Alexander photoshoot!

We had to organise the whole thing on two days' notice, because Scott is going out of town for a three-month tour of, believe it or not, the "Thomas the Tank Engine" live show (he's on the crew, not in the cast) and our publicity deadline is in April, so we needed the Alexander/Hephaistion pictures before then.

I'd decided I ( Read more... )

I cast a girl as Philotas.  Because she was talented and cool and enthusiastic and read four different roles really well and I really wanted to use her in something.  Philotas has to be both an outsider and a traitor, a hanger-on and a rebel, and has some very cool dramatic moments with Cassander during his trial.

This is Constance Dalrymple, who'll ( Read more... )

We now have a Ptolemy.


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A story from an auditionee.

I'll paraphrase.

"I was on the Tube on the way over here, going over the audition piece.  This elderly bloke is sitting next to me.

'Are you on your way to an audition?' he asks, in a refined tone of voice.

'Yes,' I reply.

'What for?' he asks.

'A play about Alexander the Great.'

'Oh,' he says, and then pauses.  'I was in the ( Read more... )

We'll be performing Alexander at the Studio at St. Augustine's, for the first two weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

However, we'll be splitting the show into two sections - performing one half one day and then the next half the next day.

Here are some pictures:


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I've cast three roles and had them accepted and offered two more.

I've also had an offer from a venue - but only for the first week.  So it's possible we may only be up there until the 8th of August rather than the 16th, or that we may be in two different venues for the two weeks.

So ... it's time to meet the cast!

First up, we have Ben Reeves as ( Read more... )