Rohna Croker - Notes

Rohna Croker - Notes

• Keeping it fresh each performance - don't be tired look after yourself interesting things in the day eating well.
•  Good to have nerves - keeps the spark
• PBJ - comedy agency
• Look for agents that represent people that want do to the same style
• Keeping agent happy - communication, build relationship,
• Voice over and adverts are good !
• Be prepared !
• Cast net & Spotlight are agencies
• Take any job you can get to earn money
• Be proactive and get out there as young as possible so you can gain experience

• Started as a stage manager - good thing to start as because you are able to see what is going on behind the scenes
• Appreciate the other roles because without all the people behind the scenes the quality would not be good because they make you look good!
• Learnt many different skills while working on TV - such as rock climbing, shooting, stunts, abseiling
• Most rewarding feeling - being given a check for doing something you love and are passionate about
• Not working can affect your confidence, self esteem, have to work harder to keep going. You start to doubt yourself and ask questions such as - why didn't they want me? Did I not look right? Was I too funny? Should I get a hair cut? You over analyse.
• As an actor you need to be confident and work hard as well as be organised and disciplined - you need these attributes when you are out of work as well as when you are working
• Working on a TV soap - 5am - 8pm, 52 episodes a year, 12 pages to learn, 16 pages a day.
• When not working you need to have a backup plan - have to be proactive! Try and stay creative some how - write scripts or work behind the scenes 
• You are only as good as your last programme
• Even when you are watching TV - Think about the actors, the scenes, the plot in more detail.
• Use everything that you know and be disciplined - it is in your control
• Auditioning - no what your job is - don't go in trying to get the job, an actor is supposed to create a compelling and interesting character that serves the text and then they walk away. everything else is out of your control. don't go there to get the job go there to present what you do.

Plays this autumn to check out at the bussey building

1)Endgame

From Samuel Beckett, Presented by Rye Mummers

Ran June 25th- 13th

"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.” This is not at all the picture most people have of a Beckett play but in ENDGAME, two characters engage in round after round of
verbal sparring as they prepare for the inevitable. The black humour that emerges is sometimes as frightening as it is funny.

Directed by Chris Haydon and starring Ricci Harnett, Peter Benedict, Fiona Watson and Billy Colvill. Endgame is Beckett's most acclaimed play written in a Theatre of the Absurd style.

2)The Inferno

A Velvet Loop Production

Ran July 16th- 27th 2013

Abandon hope all ye who enter here' are the infamous words carved into the entrance of Dante Alighieri's vision of eternal damnation. In presenting a dark journey through the complex world of catholic dogma, Dante tries to elucidate the very nature of humanity. This is the inspiration for a new theatrical production that will be consuming the CLF arts cafe this July.

This promenade performance will incorporate the full spectrum of senses to immerse the audience in the poetic scenes created by Dante. The audience itself will take the role of Dante and they will be led by Virgil, a narrator who will guide them through hell and, hopefully to spiritual salvation. Each of the nine acts will represent the nine levels of hell. A combination of live action and multimedia will be used to explore both the themes of the original text and what relevance, if any, Dante’s idea of hell has today.

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3)CITY LOVE

Ran Sep 09 - 28 2013

Lucy and Jim are on their own.

To the rest of the world they seem to be doing OK: they have jobs, friends, ambitions (well sort of).

Until their chance meeting on the number 12 night bus causes them to spiral into a world of love, pain and (mis)communication.

Award-winning writer Simon Vinnicombe takes a funny and unflinching look at how trivial insecurities can send us crashing into self-destruction. Sharp observations transform the mundane into the epic, and Vinnicombe’s slick, witty and agonizingly accurate text will pierce the heart of anyone who has ever been in love.

4)TAKE A DEEP BREATH & BREATHE

A Play by Olivier Award Winning Playwrite Bola Agbaje, Directed by Toby Clarke

Ran Aug 13 - 31 2013

Inspired by the Greek mythology Lysistrata, this honest, humorous and moving new play by Bola Agbaje explores the power struggles, choices and determinations of young men and women wrapped up in a life where rules are made and broken and relationships are tested to their limits.

“Guys think the way to solve problems is by fighting and killing.”

“If all women round here stopped having sex with their mans, they’d start respecting us because we call the shots!”

How much does a chocolate brownie cost in the Royal Court cafe?
£5

The royal courts wine merchant is Bibendum.

Who is Dominic Cooke?

Dominic Cooke was the Artistic Director of the Royal Court between 2007-2013 before Vicky Featherstone took over this year. He is a Theatre director and writes plays and He won an Olivier Award for Best Director.

The plays at the royal court he was apart of -

Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Fever by Wallace Shawn; Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill;Wig Out! by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Now or Later by Christopher Shinn; 

War and Peace and Fear and Misery by Mark Ravenhill; Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco; 

The Pain and The Itch by Bruce Norris;Other People by Christopher Shinn; Fireface by Marius von Mayenburg; Spinning into Butter by Rebecca Gilman; Redundant by Leo Butler; 

F***ing Games by Grae Cleugh; Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev; The People are Friendly by Michael Wynne; This is a Chair and Identical Twins by Caryl Churchill.

PLAYS AT THE ROYAL COURT AT THE MOMENT ARE-

Routes-

A new play offers a useful corrective to hysterical discussion of immigration, says Dominic Cavendish.

We don’t want them here. Especially if they’re from the Third World. That seems to be the disillusioned, ugly mood of the moment. And yes, it’s a bit of a liberal-minded cliché, at an hour like this, for the Royal Court to step in with a convenient reminder that migrants are people too but Routes, by Rachel De-lahay, exemplifies how drama can usefully help to stop hysteria in its tracks.

THIS PLAY IS BEING SHOWN IN THE STUDIO SPACE

The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas-

Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, Royal Court, review

The first major production of the Royal Court's new artistic director is a punishing dud, says Charles Spencer.

This is Vicky Featherstone’s first major production as the new artistic director of the Royal Court and I regret to report that it is a punishing dud.

This might seem surprising, coming as it does from Dennis Kelly, who wrote the book for that glorious musical Matilda. But before that sudden leap to success he was the author of a string of dour, cruel plays, including a ghastly modern rewrite of King Lear called The Gods Weep which was one of the least enjoyable nights I have ever spent in a theatre.

THIS PLAY IS BEING SHOWN THE MAIN THEATRE