Post by Buff on Feb 14, 2005 11:57:06 GMT 11
From the Age:
www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/13/1108229853762.html
Buff
www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/13/1108229853762.html
In the Australian Shakespeare Company's Much Ado - The Musical, starting tonight in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kate Kendall stars as Beatrice, the lead singer of girl band Babes of Disdain.
It's quite a change of pace for the former star of Channel Nine's Stingers after six-and-a-half years of television work. She gets to sing, dance, even play a bit of air guitar. But it's the fact she's playing such a feisty female character that Kendall is most excited about.
"Historically I get the damsel-in-distress role," she says, looking every inch the rock chick with cropped leather jacket, hotpants and thigh-high boots, and not distressed at all, "so it's really nice to play someone who's so dynamic and intelligent."
After pretending to stick guns in people's faces for so long, as Kendall puts it, she's loving playing Beatrice.
"It rocks, pretending to be the lead singer of a rock band. Can you imagine anything better?" She does admit, though, to finding her theatre skills a bit rusty, but is relishing the change. "I don't have to have a problem with being 'bigger'. It's taken a while to get my mouth around words and all that sort of stuff. But being in the gardens, you just have to be more communicative with your body."
There's poetic licence taken, of course, but as Kendall says, Shakespeare can afford that irreverence, and even though it's now a musical event, it's no Big Day Out. "We just have a healthy rebelliousness about the spirit in which we throw caution to the wind."
Purists, you've been warned.
WHERE: Royal Botanic Gardens (enter Observatory Gate, Birdwood Avenue).
WHEN: Tonight at 8pm, then nightly except Mondays until March 13.
HOW MUCH: $35/$30 Friday and Saturday, $30/$25 other days.
DETAILS: 8676 7511, Ticketmaster7 on 136 166 or www.ticketmaster7.com.au
It's quite a change of pace for the former star of Channel Nine's Stingers after six-and-a-half years of television work. She gets to sing, dance, even play a bit of air guitar. But it's the fact she's playing such a feisty female character that Kendall is most excited about.
"Historically I get the damsel-in-distress role," she says, looking every inch the rock chick with cropped leather jacket, hotpants and thigh-high boots, and not distressed at all, "so it's really nice to play someone who's so dynamic and intelligent."
After pretending to stick guns in people's faces for so long, as Kendall puts it, she's loving playing Beatrice.
"It rocks, pretending to be the lead singer of a rock band. Can you imagine anything better?" She does admit, though, to finding her theatre skills a bit rusty, but is relishing the change. "I don't have to have a problem with being 'bigger'. It's taken a while to get my mouth around words and all that sort of stuff. But being in the gardens, you just have to be more communicative with your body."
There's poetic licence taken, of course, but as Kendall says, Shakespeare can afford that irreverence, and even though it's now a musical event, it's no Big Day Out. "We just have a healthy rebelliousness about the spirit in which we throw caution to the wind."
Purists, you've been warned.
WHERE: Royal Botanic Gardens (enter Observatory Gate, Birdwood Avenue).
WHEN: Tonight at 8pm, then nightly except Mondays until March 13.
HOW MUCH: $35/$30 Friday and Saturday, $30/$25 other days.
DETAILS: 8676 7511, Ticketmaster7 on 136 166 or www.ticketmaster7.com.au
Buff
