The First Draft Shortcut
So, you’ve got an idea for a script. Great! You’re super excited. But then you sit down to write and wham! The enormity of the task hits...
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Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 4 min
5 Tips For Writers From A Dramaturg
Written by Marcus Bazley, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director After we spoke to playwright Katherine Soper last week on the Cyphers...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 5 min
I didn’t go to drama school, I’m not going now, so how on earth do I get into theatre?
Written by Marcus Bazley, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director So, you’ve done or are doing a ‘proper’ degree at university, but what you...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 5 min
Have I wasted three years of my life doing a degree when I should have gone to drama school?
Written by Marcus Bazley, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director So, you decided to go to university and do a ‘real’ degree. You may well...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 5 min
5 Influences
I started off thinking about 5 plays that have influenced me the most. But then I thought it would actually be more interesting to look...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
Cyphers In Lockdown
As I write this entry, our production of Great Expectations should have been beginning its tour in Barnes, at OSO Arts.
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Beauty and the Beast
Co-Artistic Director, Marcus Bazley, describes his time working as JMK Assistant Director on Beauty and the Beast at Wiltshire Creative…...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Training For Northanger Abbey
Re-rehearsal always seems to me to be a slightly counter-intuitive term. How exactly do you re-rehearse something? Having said that, I...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
A Review of 2017
Artistic Director and co-founder, Marcus Bazley, looks back on “a seminal year for Cyphers.” This past year feels like it has been quite...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 4 min
Jane Austen: A Teenage Boy’s Perspective
Last week, I went back to Reading School to run a workshop with a group of teenage boys on Jane Austen. Yes, I know. Jane Austen and...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
Meet The Creatives – Marcus Bazley
From adapting the text, directing the show, to performing a whole host of characters – Marcus has certainly got his work cut out! What’s...
Cyphers Theatre Company
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Mistrust everything – even your own shadow.
I’m going to start by being completely honest: this has been the most challenging project I have ever worked on to date. It has been a...
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