Burn opens in three and a half weeks. We’ve got ten more rehearsals to go. It may seem like a lot, but it will go by quickly. On the plus side, the actors know most of their lines. I’m the laggard in the cast. But I’m nearly there. The lines are coming. Slowly. There are…
Darn it! Why do I give into temptation so easily? The plan was to work on my lines and my songs. But the TV beckoned. I’d watch a little bit and hang out with my daughter. And then there was the Zoom call at 8:30. I was hanging out with my friends. Now, it’s after…
The number one question that I get asked about acting is: How do you remember all those lines? Memorization seems to be a fading skill for most people. Why commit things to memory when you can look them up online? Of course, when you’re performing in a play, you don’t have that luxury. You’ve got…
Many of us have heard the term “learned hopelessness”. Your ability to think for yourself and do things for yourself gets beaten out of you. From negative experiences. It a form of apathy. And in its most extreme form can lead to death. You just give up. Stephen Magness discusses this phenomenon in his book…
You never know what the day will bring. Yesterday, I saw a dead person. At least, I’m pretty sure they’re dead. The Emergency Services Technicians were giving him CPR. But there was no response. And then they put him in an ambulance. But the ambulance didn’t rush off. It stayed there for about 15 minutes.…
We are hard-wired to look for what’s wrong. What’s bad. What’s broken. And with those “glasses” on, it’s easy to overlook what’s good. What’s working. What went well. Last month, I missed two posts. I only posted 28 days, instead of 30 days. And my initial reaction was that I failed. Not only that, but…
As expected, this was a month where the pendulum swung the other way. The weight pendulum, that is. After a few months of decreasing my weight, I gained back most of it. My average weight for April was 208.9lbs. Almost up to my January weight. It would have been higher if I hadn’t revisited Intermittent…
Today is the last day of the day the Dramatist’s Guild’s month long “End of Play”. And I didn’t do much writing. Doh! But I’m going to push that effort out to May, instead. Or I should save it for June? May is going to be busy with Burn ramping up. Lines must be learned.…
I’ve been pretty good at limiting my television watching. Limiting it how many days I watch. Of course, once I sit in front of the TV, I’m prone to sit there for hours. For me, avoidance is the best kind of limitation. Because my self control is very weak once I start watching. But I’ve…
I was at Dundas Little Theatre today. Volunteering to do the bar for intermission. It struck me that there’s a social aspect to seeing a play. Beyond the entertainment and cultural aspects, I mean. Because I’ve been involved in a few shows, I’ve met a few people. And we run into each other at different…
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