Time to Act

Another busy week. Busy and frustrating at times. I spent a good part of Friday afternoon (it would have been good to have been elsewhere) stuck in a very cold room in the basement of Tremough House fruitlessly trying to upload articles onto bloc online, particularly trying to update my profile, which at the moment is quite embarrassingly bad. What was I thinking when I wrote it? I thought people would be interested in how I started out writing stories for my toys about coal scuttles. I think I was wrong. So I’ve written a much more sophisticated version, emphasising my skills, and can’t get it up there. Damn. And I gave up a swimming in the sea session. Next week I'll be there, as long as the storms have died down.

Dumbfunded has also taken a chunk of time. Time well spent though. The performances have been and gone, and I can’t quite believe it’s now all finished. It was so much fun, and it turned out brilliantly. The guys did really well, and every night at Miss Peapod’s was sold out. It’s a really nice venue, big enough to hold nearly a hundred people, but small enough to be an intimate comedy venue which I think works best. Nerve wracking though, as you climb up onto the stage, trying to be gracefully in character, you look out and realise that the front row of the audience can practically see the pores on your skin. I wore more make up than I would in a year. Getting it off was a bugger, and now my skin feels very strange.

However, it was good, Very good. It’s addictive being up on stage, performing, and having people laugh at you when they’re meant to. People said some very nice things about my performance, which as an amateur actress is very nice to hear. I did want to be an actress when I was a child, and was seriously addicted to watching Casualty. It reared up again a few years ago after watching Lord of the Rings and I sent off for Drama School prospectuses. However, I decided otherwise, and went the writing route instead, and stuck with amateur theatre. I think I also surprised a lot of people who know me, and did not expect to see me doing something like this. Another of us from the course proved to be a very good actor in the very first thing he’s acted in. Greg, you were amazing.