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Dashing Blades in the Theatre: Goodnight Desdemona (Goodmorning Juliet) |
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Monday, 28 March 2005 |
 Dashing Blades has recently completed the choreography and fight
direction for One Night Castle's production of Goodnight Desdemona
(Good Morning Juliet) playing march 23rd to April 9th at Presentation
House Theatre.
Fight designers Sebastien de Castell and F. Braun McAsh wrote the
choreography to suit the different tones of the play. "We went
completely serious for the first fight [between Mercutio and Tybalt],"
de Castell notes. "Even though the entire play is a comedy, we knew the
farcical fights would be much funnier if they paralleled a grittier,
more historically accurate fight from the first part of the play."
Jessical Claren worked as sword coach on the production. "The actors did a great job leaning the
fights," says Claren. "they look deadly and fast in the early fights
and hillarious in the later ones."
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