Blue Roo's Midnight at the Cemetery, Friday 15th and 16th November, 2024

Midnight at the cementery was a 18 week voluntary acting program that I was part of for the end of this year. I started with Blue Roo back in August of this year, and to be honest, I wasn't sure if I would continue, but, they surprised me at the end of term party and they offered a mentorship for the second half of next year, which I'm very excirted for! 

I will continue with the acting program for next year, but in light of being offered the mentorship I am uncertain at this stage how it will affect things. So, for I've been told so far, the mentorship will go from 12 week but it's only two hours long each week. As for the rest I'll have to keep you updated.

The producton of Midnight at the Cementery went off without a hitch. By the end of the program we were visiting the Queensland Multicultural Centre. It was really great to see the show come to live on the big stage. I will admit the weeks leading up to this to me felt a bit slow beacuse I felt like I should have been doing more with my acting, but otherwise, once the show came to live on the big stage it really felt like I found a different group of friends. 

I'd like to give a couple of shoutouts to people: one to Lachlan, the artistic director of Midnight at the Cementery; and to Vivien and Dale for the immense work at Blue Roo and for the opportunity of the upcoming mentorship in 2025; and for last, to the whole cast and production team Brigid Coote (Mrs Twizzle), Benjamin Cox (Mystic Zoltan), Cameron East (The Mummy), Ben Halpin (The Grave Digger), Sarah Jhonson (Not Igor), James Loakes (Dr Twizzle), Matt Southgate (Nick), Cherie Watson (Narrator), Blue Roo Theatre Company Inc. (Producer), Sarah Jackson & Blue Roo Ensemble (Writers), Lachlan Driscoll (Co-Director & Mentor), Oriel Halpin (Co-Director), James Loakes (Assistant Director), Maureen Bowra (Choreographer), Catherine McNaught (Costune Designer), Tim James (Lighting & Sound Designer), Sabine Scholz (Prop Master & Maker), Deaf Connect (Auslan) and Vivien Whittle (Audio Description).

Regards,

Stephanie.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Quest South Brisbane 13th to the 17th of November 2024

 Quest South Brisbane is where I stayed for the direction of the production at QMC, which allowed me to stay up in Brisbane for the two performances of Midnight at the Cementery.  My holiday originally started on Wednesday, when we picked up one of my carers whose name is Sofia from Oxenford, then continuing through to Brisbane, where I aslo met up with a friend by the name of Adrian. We had lunch together at the Riverside cafe in Southbank. After this we got to check in at Quest, where we stayed for five days. My carers did change for once during these days, having Julia for the three first days and Wiesia the last two days, but Sofia for the whole five days. Throughout this time we had numerous rehesals for the Thursday to the Saturday, and then the final performance of the Midnight at the Cementery was on the 16th of November.  I had fun during my time at Quest although I was exhausted on the Friday night, so all I did after the performance was  basically go to be...
Read more

Guiding light of Angela's voice

 Angela and I had a verbal fight, but now our future is back to being bright. You may ask what we fought over; the answer is our friendship. I've recently worked on the sequel to the Angela and Murray story, 'What Happened to Katheryn. This story currently has 510 words, without little birds. Recently as of the 24th of January 2023, I had the privilege of being accompanied by Angela and Anika to my psychology. You might wonder what is wrong with me? I have some things going on now, although I prefer not to always show it. When I got the privilege of having Angela accompany me to Psychology, my heart was filled with glee! There are a few reasons this could be; one is that she was previously able to keep my mental health afloat, just like I was in a boat. Why does this fill me with glee? Well, you see, she promised me that she would be there when I was a scare. Angela's voice is like most, although it can sound slightly moist; 6 years ago today, I was finishing a holiday with...
Read more