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What would Rachmaninoff do?

Here at Diamond Dogs we do, of course, love David Bowie. (And Iggy Pop – Ed.) But we also like to take musical inspiration from a wide catchment. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s enduring reputation (particularly in popular culture) is largely due to his Piano … Continue reading

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Meet the Team: Director Steven

Steven likes making stuff… Sometimes big loud shiny stuff, like opera, sometimes smaller more intimate stuff, like Diamond Dogs. He’s been making stuff on stage, street and film for a couple of years now, and this year he’s experimenting with … Continue reading

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Meet the Team: Production manager Ricky

This is our production manager, Ricky. He is the baby of the team. The pup, the whelp, the cub. He’s 23 and originally from Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil. He’s studied both acting and performing arts management at … Continue reading

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Meet the Team: Our designer Steph

Steph originally studied textile design, where she developed her trademark illustration-style that you can see worked into our poster, our blog, our twitter and youtube accounts. Her design for the play itself applies the same sort of surreal lacquer to … Continue reading

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Mood Food

From Laura at Hungry and Frozen (thank you!) I was in the midst of being completely trounced at Two-Handed 500 (that’s a card game, by the way…I went on to have a 30Rock marathon, I really know how to spend … Continue reading

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Kate on Ziggy Stardust

A character who descends from space to front “the last band on earth”.  This alter ego took rock theatre into new dimensions and blew open issues of gender and identity politics.  If Bowie was too afraid to do or say … Continue reading

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Don’t you like me? I just saw this photo, of this chubby little puggy, and had to use it somehow. And what better way, with its earnest little face, than tell you about our Facebook page? Because everyone, not just … Continue reading

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OK, so what about the people who love someone who’s depressed??

Images from Living with a Black Dog, by Matthew and Ainsley Johnstone. For every successful depressant, there is a slightly baffled person standing behind them. Caring for someone who’s depressed can be really hard too. It’s hard to know what the … Continue reading

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Pull up a chair, and get an insight into our rehearsals.

Kate and Julia in rehearsals this week.

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