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Peculiar Slice: Arcadia’s Lighting Designer

Meet the team kneading and proving Peculiar’s next production Arcadia ready to rise to the stage in February 2019!

Who are you and what you got cookin’?

I’m John, the lighting designer, and I’ll be cooking up a storm of light. Arcadia has some moody scenes and different times of day, so I’ll be making the sets come to life with a bit of technical magic.

What ingredients do you need as lighting designer and what gets your taste-buds tingling the most?

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Peculiar Slice: Arcadia’s Production Manager

Meet the team kneading and proving Peculiar’s next production Arcadia ready to rise to the stage in February 2019!

Who are you and what you got cookin’?

I’m Sam, the Production Manager and I’m currently getting together a wicked team of people to bring Arcadia to life.

What ingredients do you need as Production Manager and what gets your taste-buds tingling the most? Continue reading “Peculiar Slice: Arcadia’s Production Manager”

Peculiar Slice: Arcadia’s Director

Meet the team kneading and proving Peculiar’s next production, Arcadia, ready to rise to the stage in February 2019!

Who are you and what you got cookin’?

I’m the director! We are currently preparing for auditions, so it’s lots of documents and spreadsheets and refreshing emails every ten minutes.

What ingredients do you need as director and what gets your taste-buds tingling the most?

Patience and respect – it’s the only way your team will have patience and respect towards you. And a definite hunger for fun.

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The Truth: Pack Tactics

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret – and fretting we are!

As Show Week (TM) approaches, the emotions and excitement are reaching fever frenzy. But it’s great; seeing how far the Peculiars have come since the first read-through of our debut show as a new company.

Everyone has developed and explored their characters so much – the five months since rehearsals started have given everyone the opportunity to really discover and learn to love their characters. Continue reading “The Truth: Pack Tactics”

The Truth: The Press Gang

Hello! My name is Josh, and I am peculiar.

About three years ago, my childhood friend Loz approached me to join a theatre company called Monstrous Productions that specialised in plays by the late, great Terry Pratchett, who were at the time planning a production of Night Watch.

As someone who had never read a Discworld book I was unsure about auditioning, but after being poked and prodded approximately 27,880,978 times I eventually agreed. Continue reading “The Truth: The Press Gang”

The Truth: Habitual Offender

I may as well be open with you from the outset. I have never watched a play, musical, opera or ballet in my life.

How then did I come to play an antagonist in a stage adaptation of a book by one of my favourite authors? It’s a peculiar story, as most good stories are…
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Meet the Team: Stage Manager

I’m Lizzie, and I’m the Stage Manager (SM) for Peculiar’s first production The Truth.

I’ve worked in a variety of backstage roles in numerous professional and amateur productions and have loved every moment of it. Continue reading “Meet the Team: Stage Manager”

The Truth: A Respectable Reporter

Hello! I’m Caitlin and I’m playing Sacharissa Cripslock in the upcoming play The Truth.

I have a slight confession to make: when it comes to acting I’m an actual, real-life newbie. So you might wonder why on Earth I decided to audition for the show? I knew a few people already in the company, having been to a few of the previous Monstrous Productions shows and felt like it would be something great to try out–so I signed up and went along to auditions. Continue reading “The Truth: A Respectable Reporter”

The Truth: Meet William de Worde

I’ve been slapped in the face by an angry engraver, menaced for cash by a litigious zombie, interrogated by a semi-supernatural police force, and irritated by an incessant turnip-fancier.

I think you’ll like this show.

Hello! I’m Loz, and I’ll be playing William de Worde in Peculiar Productions‘ stage performance of Terry Pratchett’s The Truth, taking place in Cardiff this August at the beautiful Gate Arts Centre. Continue reading “The Truth: Meet William de Worde”

The Truth: The Wonder Dog!

I was really excited to take on the role of Gaspode for this production. As a huge Discworld fan it was really great to get my teeth into another iconic character. Having previously been cast as Maurice in ‘The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents’ it wasn’t a shock to try and portray a talking animal on stage. However, the differences from that production to this one are vast. Continue reading “The Truth: The Wonder Dog!”