When I’m doing a show and I’m playing an unmarried character, I remove my wedding ring. I used to take it off before every performance. But sometimes I forgot. And I would try to remove it during the show. Then I would have to worry about losing it. Now, I remove it before the play…
Last weekend, I was at the Players Guild Theatre’s AGM. Annual General Meeting. It marked the end of the Guild’s theatre season. And most of the other community theatres in the area had an AGM around the same time. I don’t usually go to AGMs. But the cast of Burn was encouraged to go because…
Now, it’s hitting me. The post show doldrums. For months, there was a build up to putting on a show. And for weeks, we put on Burn. Now, it’s all done. My next show doesn’t start rehearsals until September. I’ve got over two months of… Freedom? Boredom? Opportunity? I still have a few things to…
It still hasn’t hit me that Burn is over. It’s been less than a week since we closed. And I’ll be seeing some of my Burn comrades tomorrow at the Player’s Guild AGM. Not enough time has passed to miss it yet. It also helps to be involved with another show. I got cast in…
The crazy thing about theatre is how ephemeral it all is. Like a flower blooming. If you miss it, you miss it. For weeks, The Player’s Guild has been my second home. And the beautiful set of Burn has been the living room that I spent a lot of time in. Here’s a picture of…
A friend of mine saw me in Burn. She told me that it was the best performance she’s seen me do in all the shows of mine that she’s seen. She might be right. You hope that you do a good job when you’re acting in a play. But I’m lazy when I’m preparing for…
One of the things I hate about doing a show is checking for friends after the performance. When the applause ends, the actors leave the stage. And we get out of our costumes and make up. If you know that you had family or friends in the audience, you get changed quickly. Otherwise, you can…
After our Friday performance of Burn, we got a surprise. Before we could go out and greet our family and friends after the show, we were told to head back upstairs. Matt, the director, wanted to talk to us and was bringing some other people. Ominous… It turned out that John Muggleton and his wife…
I was busy the day I went to the audition. I donated blood. And had to head straight to the audition to get there just after 7pm. No time for dinner. Fortunately, I had a big lunch. I had to leave the audition early, also. I had a line run at 8:30. Both the donation…
I’m only a third of the way through the performances for Burn and already I’ve got to think about the next thing. There’s an audition this week for The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig. The Peninsula Players are putting it on. It’s a fun play. Comic. The show goes up in November. But they are…
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