Adhoc Actors

Tag: history

  • The time Scoop…

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    “We have to unlock the TimeScoop”. I nod assent and lurch off in the direction of the history wing of Adhoc Towers. I am always scared of using the TimeScoop but it has been such a useful tool for so many jobs. Besides, the target – a Mr Henry Sherwin – seems quite blasé about the…

  • Doing the Bard, innit.

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    Mark Rylance has just given his esteemed opinion of Shakespeare: we agree with him. Someone asked recently, “what is the best Shakespeare play to read first”? The only reply is: “none”. Shakespeare wrote plays, they were meant to be performed, watched and enjoyed as entertainment, not revered as literary works and kept in stasis forever – that’s archaeology.…

  • Suffrage

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    Researching material to create a new script to educate young people on the plight of female Suffrage in the early 20th Century, there are so many stories of heroic deeds by women of every station.  Enjoying the wealth of material but cannot helped but be moved by the injustice of the situation.  Here is just…

  • Real Game of Thrones!

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    We’re looking forward to participating in a day of medieval fun, with music, entertainment, feasting and sword-fighting as part of Leicester’s Richard III celebrations this month.  While the novels and TV show are favourites of many people, us included, we like to create the atmosphere of that era, whether fiction or historical fact and can…

  • The amazing truth behind “break a leg”

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    Ever had someone wish you luck by saying “break a leg”? Most people think this is rather harsh and imagine the valiant performer struggling though a show nursing fractured limbs on stage. Perhaps this refers to the “show must go on” spirit so many actors have in their blood? Or is it a glib reference to…

  • Hollywood stories!

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    + We found the following wonderful nugget in the Event Organisers update newsletter. Hollywood history gold. Thanks guys. MADAME DUBARRY The story of the doomed courtesan at the Versailles court of Louis XV was an early (1919) black and white silent film of director Ernst Lubitsch which used the excuse of history to give audiences…

  • RAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!

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    IS HERE!  

  • Marie Antionette

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    Actually no, it’s the fabulous Rosalind Parker facilitating our French Revolution workshop at the British museum but she looks great and what a glare she gives! Enough to make the proles quiver! Thankfully she didn’t use it too much on the children who came to the workshop and they successfully chopped off her head.

  • Mill Life

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    The fabulous James Dunne poses for publicity still during the filming of Mill Life