And just like that, August is over! The summer break is done, and my schedule will be full again. Rehearsals. Choir. It’s all starting back up again. Because it will be so busy, I’ve decided on my priorities for September: I’m hoping to learn my lines for The Game’s Afoot by the end of September.…
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…
After a show opens, there’s usually a “line run”. Between the end of one week’s performances and the start of the following week’s performances. It’s when the actors say their lines to each other but usually there isn’t any action or movement. Often everyone is just sitting around. Or it’s a Zoom call. The tricky…
We opened our play Burn last night. After weeks of rehearsals. It’s funny because the audience is such an important ingredient to any show. They provide the extra something. We put on the play for them, but they give us their attention. And that commerce of sorts results in an energy. And that energy affects…
It’s been a while since I posted anything regarding my year of the woo woo. So, I thought I’d share a recent one. I haven’t been able to go to my choir rehearsals since rehearsals for Burn started. The plan was that I would continue to work on the songs and try to get them…
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…
I saw a play last weekend. And a couple of the actors were struggling with their lines. Nothing major. Just some fumbling and repeating of some lines, as they tried to get back on track. Been there. Done that. I’m not sure if it was noticeable from the audience point of view. But I could…
There’s a brief space between the ending of one thing and the beginning of another. A space that intensifies the feeling of loss for the end of the previous thing. Last night was my last choir rehearsal for the season. My play rehearsals start next Tuesday, so I won’t be able to go to any…
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