This week Ricky and Gavin talk to actor, stage combat specialist, fight director and Lazarus Associate, Alice Emery! Alice trained at the Stella Mann College of Performing Arts and Drama Centre London, the latter inspiring her deep love of Early Modern playwrights. She received further training as an instructor for the Academy of Performance Combat and runs the sword fighting demonstrations at Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibitions. Alice first worked with Lazarus in 2014/15 in Shakespeare’s Henry V at the Union Theatre, then went on to work on our devised production of Euripides The Bacchae at The Blue Elephant Theatre, John Ford’s Tis Pity She’s a Whore at the Tristan Bates Theatre, the rehearsed reading of John Gay’s seldom seen sequel to The Beggar’s Opera, Polly the sequel all in 2016 and most recently, played Lady Macbeth in our 2020 production of Macbeth just before the theatre shutdown.

Follow Alice on Twitter and Instagram: @reggieseeley

Find out more about Alice’s work: www.Spotlight.com//0611-0199-9390

During her conversation, Alice talks about:

Shakespeare's globe, stage combat, weapons, steel swords, Phillip Stafford, Scotland steel, Fight direction, Creativity, Lockdown, Macbeth, Twins, Babies, Motherhood, Working Mum, Fight Crew, Zoom, Shakespeare, Natalie Winter, Weekly read, Troilus and Cressida, Lady Macbeth, Living room camp, daddy day care, Day with babies night on stage, Equity, Spotlight, RJ Seeley, Drama Centre, Reggie, Names, Stage names, Acting, Actor / Actress, Ballerina, Dancer, Musicals, Drama, Actor training, RADA summer course, BBC, Stella Mann, Concise, Shakespeare's text, Truth, Actors process, What your character says about others, Shakespeare's meter, Iambic Pentameter, Verse, Prose, Marlowe, Middleton, Golden Age of theatre, Writers, Shared experience, audience, relationships, community, special, Unique, catharsis, safe, Game of Thrones, Favourite play, fluid, Evolve, Ken Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Henry V, Gower, Drama games, Play, All-female, Drama school, Character, Text, False start, 2014, 2015, Fluellen, Baby, Physical, Micha Colombo, Ian Holm, Arch 468, Comedy, Welsh Accent, O' for a muse of fire, 2016, The Bacchae, Tis Pity, Polly, John Gay, John Ford, Euripides, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe, writhe, grunt, turn into a beast, comradery, commute, courageous, A Chorus Line, Greek drama, ensemble, dance, pulsing, Drama, heart beat, monologue, soundscape, human percussion, singular goal, visceral, discovering, Jack Studio Theatre, Tristan Bates, Blue Elephant Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, Rehearsed reading, Sara Reimers, Ambitious, Husband, Character, artistic vision, artists, Peter Pan, JM Barrie, Fight, pirates, language of fight

Find out more about Lazarus Theatre at www.lazarustheatre.com