The Absolut Fringe Festival kicks off in Dublin this Saturday the 5th of September. One of the events that has caught my eye is Loose Cannon’s Piggyback Project.

In this time of recession it’s a very clever idea to use the same crew for two show in the one festival. As the press release says;

New times call for new ways of making work. And so, as part of Absolut Fringe 2009, Loose Canon are presenting two new shows, by two cutting-edge directors, which will share designers, cast, space and time in order to serve audiences with a double helping of work from one of Ireland’s most exciting theatre companies.

The shows in question are Anatomy of a Seagull and Jesus Has My Mom In There And Has Beat Her Up Real Bad (more…)

As someone who has done some acting myself, this is a complete nightmare!

From The Times;

Try this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna’s Burgtheater, one of Europe’s oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character’s desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor’s neck. But something’s not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That’s because the knife, and the harm that it’s done, are both tragically real.

Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller’s play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. (more…)

Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,

Here is another bulletin with lots of interesting possibilities for
everybody, not only in Cork but in Dublin and other places around the
country. Brilliant stuff!

Best wishes,

Marcus

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Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,

I am helping to organize 3 different Intensive workshops this summer in Barcelona based on the work of Jacques LeCoq.

The teachers are Simon Edwards & Marian Masoliver. They both trained with Jacques Le Coq in Paris and worked all around the world as performers, directors and drama teachers.

I have trained with them in the last two years and the quality was so high and the workshop so enjoyable, that I started helping them with the organization of the workshops because I wanted to get more people to know about them and go to train with them. Last year more than 25 people went to do these workshops from Ireland and the feedback from these participants has been fantastic throughout. It was a great success!!

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Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,

A new year, a new bulletin ripe and ready with lots of interesting
possibilities. Hopefully something will grab your attention!

Best wishes,

Marcus

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