{"id":256,"date":"2011-10-09T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2022-11-12T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:45:20","slug":"25000-words-spoken-one-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25000-words-spoken-one-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"twenty five thousand words, spoken one at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A day in Cardiff. Mike Pearson and I met a cast of fourteen actors, with colleagues from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsc.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Shakespeare Company<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaltheatrewales.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Theatre Wales<\/a>, for an open cold reading of the full unedited text of <em>Coriolanus<\/em>, amongst an informal gathering within the public space of the Senedd in Caridff Bay. Culminating, as the building closed its doors for the day, out in the last of the afternoon sun, on the building\u2019s steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My sincerest thanks to everyone involved. Being able to meet the text, animated so directly, in public space, was even more useful than I had hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/coriolanus\/senedd01.jpg\" alt=\"Senedd reading #1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/coriolanus\/senedd02.jpg\" alt=\"Senedd reading #2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The generous readers were: Simon Armstrong, Patrick Brennan, Alex Clatworthy, Tomos Eames, Richard Elis, Roger Evans, Bradley Freegard, Nia Gwynne, Derek Hutchinson, Daniel Llewelyn-Williams, Richard Lynch, Nichola McAuliffe, Steffan Rhodri and David Sibley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day in Cardiff. Mike Pearson and I met a cast of fourteen actors, with colleagues from the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Wales, for an open cold reading of the full unedited text of Coriolanus, amongst an informal gathering within the public space of the Senedd in Caridff Bay. Culminating, as the building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coriolanus","category-pearsonbrookes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}