Eclipse Theatre

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show- Rehearsal Life Extra 4&5

Meet Mozelle, Mrs Emma Caldwell and her Daughter, L'il Bits. Well, the people that play them anyway: Name: Jacqueline Boatswain Previously seen in: Most recently as part of the York Theatre Royal’s ensemble company in To Kill a Mockingbird as well as Torchwood, Misstresses and the original cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. Character: Mozelle and Mrs Emma Caldwell. Three words to describe your character (Mozelle): Feisty, Comfortable, Clever. If you had the option to switch...

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show- Rehearsal Life Extra 2&3

Here's the second and third instalments of the actor profiles that I will be posting throughout the day in the lead up to the official opening of One Monkey Don't Stop No Show. Meet: Name: Ayesha Antoine Previously appeared in: Most recently appeared at Derby Live in the first major revival of The Mountaintop and in My Wonderful Day at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Others may recognise her from a stint in Holby City and grew up with her during her time in Grange Hill. Character Name:...

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show- Rehearsal Life Extra

Now that rehearsals have come to an end and we are well and truly deep inside our period of previews before inviting the press to come and take a look at our work, I thought now would be a good time to check in with the actors of show and talk to them about their experience of being part of One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show. Keep an eye out on here and on our twitter account @eclipsetcl as I will be leaking out a few little gems directly from the characters of the show over the next couple of...

Booking Fast One Monkey Dont Stop No Show

The national tour of One Monkey Dont Stop No Show by Don Evans is now Booking all over the country. Click on your nearest venue to book your tickets. Have a look at our trailer: Venue Dates Sheffield Theatres 10th -24th September Tobacco Factory, Bristol 30th September- 1st Oct Albany Theatre London 4th-8th October Ipswich New Wolsey 18th-19th October Fairfield Halls, Croydon 21st,-22nd October Contact Manchester 25th-26th...

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show- Rehearsal Life 3

Week three came and went in a flash. Before beginning my residency at Sheffield Theatre’s, the majority of my time as a theatre director has been working within small budget (aka no budget) theatre and with extremely tight time restrictions. The majority of the plays I had worked on had a maximum of two days rehearsal, if I was lucky enough to find a space to rehearse for that long, that is. (with the exception of a few projects). Therefore, before starting One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show,...

Trailer: One Monkey Dont Stop No Show 2011 tour

This is the trailer for our new...

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show -Rehearsal Life 2

I must start Blog number two with an apology. For those who read Blog number one, you were cheated out of a certain key piece of information that was a rather big part of our first week. I am of course talking about Eclipse’s answer to Michael Winslow (The guy from police academy that makes those incredible noises…), Michaela Kennet the dialect coach. Michaela had the company sounding like authentic Philadelphian residents within a matter of hours. Dawn’s twist on this was, not only would...

One Monkey Dont Stop No Show – Rehearsal Life

Week One Having quickly got over the fact that Don Evan’s 1970’s comedy, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show included a double negative within the title, I was rolling around laughing before I could reach the bottom of the first page. Described to me as, ‘The Cosby Show meets restoration comedy’, this has since become the tag line for the European Premier of this lost playwrights masterpiece. No matter how many times I’m lucky enough to experience it, it will never fail to...

Rehearsal Life

Hey everyone Well rehearsals for One Monkey Dont Stop No Show have begun. Myself, Jocelyn , Roger, Ayesha, Daniel, Michelle, Jacqueline, Isaac and Kala are locked in our Sheffield rehearsal space and will emerge in a few weeks. Till then our brilliant Assistant Director - Alex Thorpe will be your link to our world. He is writing a weekly blog to share his experiences of life in Eclipse Theatre rehearsals. Alex is Resident Assistant Director at Sheffield Theatres on a nine month...

JOCELYN JEE ESIEN GOES FROM LITTLE MISS TO MRS HARRISON

NEWS RELEASE25 July 2011 JOCELYN JEE ESIEN GOES FROM LITTLE MISS TO MRS HARRISON IN ECLIPSE THEATRE’S FIRST COMEDY Eclipse Theatre is delighted to announce that award-winning actor and comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien will take the role of Myra Harrison in the European premiere of Don Evans’ ONE MONKEY DON’T STOP NO SHOW this autumn. Directed by Eclipse Artistic Director Dawn Walton, ONE MONKEY DON’T STOP NO SHOW is a co-production with Sheffield...