Tag: weddings
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“Doing” Shakespeare.
Rosalind Parker plays an outraged Katharina in an excerpt from The taming of the Shrew at Somerset House last year for a private audience. Photo credit Christine Heymann We LOVE doing Shakespeare. When we say “doing” Shakespeare it makes it sound flippant and glib. But why not? People have been subjected to dry textual studies…
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Teenage years ahoy!
This year Adhoc celebrates it’s 13th birthday! Predictable jokes about “unlucky thirteen” aside, we have now been providing actors for entertainment and training for 13 years! That’s no mean feat in the current business and economic climate. It means we have weathered a double dip recession and steered the Adhoc ship through the stormy seas…
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100% confidence
We often hear people say about their workforce, “we believe in you”, or to their clients, “have faith in us”. We don’t use these phrases at all. We’ve let our work speak for itself for over ten years now, with clients who rebook our services repeatedly. Many of the same actors being loyal, steadfast performers…
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Ring ring!
We’re currently having some disconnection problems with our phone line but that’s ok, while it’s being sorted by the engineers we have all of social media and the internet for connectivity! If you need to get in touch then ping us an email and we’ll give you a call back -because sometimes it’s better to…
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Fighting fit!
We’ve been enjoying some outdoor fun with our medieval duellists this summer. Our actors are trained and qualified with the BASSC, (British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat), and add another dimension of performance to a duel, as opposed to reenactment or military historians. What everyone loves is bit of tense drama and to cheer…
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The Lost Generation of actors!
Have you noticed the phrase”emerging talent”? It is always accompanied by portraits of very young actors, fresh out of drama school, looking to make a living in the business, quite often starry eyed with visions of fame dancing before them. Why not? Good luck to them we say. But there is a whole generation of actors…
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Real Game of Thrones!
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…
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Normal Service will be Resumed…
Our website has been undergoing some structural refurbishment, which is why there’s been no blog posts for a while but we shall be commenting on all things thespian again soon!
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Amazing weddings
We’ve had quite a demand for entertainment at weddings recently. From the hidden fun of comedy waiters to full on Shakespeare dinner theatre around the wedding breakfast, it seems people want to really do something different on their special day. We even have a call to create a full fight scene with stunt performers for…