May 2010 Entries
Tama Barry on the last week of the Romeo and Juliet tour.
Sun glorious sun: finally the weather is brightening! I left my flat in Glasgow to head to the airport under the dazzling glare of a long lost friend, the sun.
We are off to Belfast today. The flight is like being shot across the sea by rubber band airlines - I had no idea we were so close! Arriving, the weather was just as nice, so after getting settled in my digs, I was off to explore the city. This is my third time here but the other...
Tama Barry reflects on the performances at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Well here we are week four, and we are heading back up to the north of Scotland to the idyllic city of Inverness. Apparently the weather got the months mixed up as we traveled through a snowstorm on the way here. A little odd for May I would have thought?
Anyway back to the task at hand. We are performing at the Eden Court Theatre this week, which had a pretty major facelift about four years ago and apparently has caused some amount of debate with the locals, but I have...
Tama Barry's tour blog - week 3, Aberdeen
Tama blogs as the Romeo and Juliet tour reaches Aberdeen.
Our third week of shows brings us to Aberdeen. His Majesty's Theatre has one of the smallest stages we perform on so once again as with Edinburgh there are some spacing challenges. The stage is also raked - a rake is when the stage is sloped towards the audience at a slight angle with the back of the stage being higher than the front, normally an angle of less than ten degrees. And while this doesn’t sound like much, it makes a massive difference to your...
Principal dancer Tama Barry blogs about the Edinburgh run of Romeo and Juliet.
For the first week out on the road we hit the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. This will be our largest stage for this tour and as such proposes new challenges as well as new freedoms. It reminds me a lot of the modern theatres in Australia so I feel very comfortable here, it is a great feeling to be able to dance with copious amounts of space and not have to constrict your movements to a small space.
We started the Edinburgh week with a full run onstage with...