Good excuses
April 30th 2009 02:35
My fans have been complaining at the lack of blog posts here over the last week or so. I have good excuses!
Firstly, I've been working. Yes, I still work. Normal 40 hour week.
Secondly, I've been studying, doing a distance learning course online, about research methods. Finding it very enjoyable, and right up my alley. And so far the marks have been pretty good as well.
Thirdly, I'm rehearsing for a play which goes on at the end of May - the 23rd, to be precise. (It's on for a week). The play is called, When We Are Married, and apparently was the first play in history to be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It's a lot of fun, and I've been moved up the cast list from a small two page role as Rev Mercer, an unctious Anglican
minister, to Henry Ormonroyd, a newspaper photographer, who spends two of his three scenes being tipsy. Ormonroyd, even though he only appears relatively briefly in any of the three acts is often listed as the 'plum' role in the play and is often played by a well-known name (Joss Ackland was in the TV version). He's the main comedy character, although the rest of the cast have plenty of comedic moments. So I'm walking in well-known shoes here.
Fourthly, the drama group at church is going to be presenting a bunch of short dramas relating to a series, People of the Spirit, that's coming up in May and will be running through to late June/early July. I'm appearing in the first of these dramas - right in the middle of the rehearsals for the other play - and then will probably appear as the same character in some of the later ones (once the Priestly is out of the way).
Fifthly, (and this isn't an excuse) I've got heaps more energy than I had earlier in the year, which is a great bonus. Things in the waterworks department are functioning fine, with less and less pain, and, while I'm not exactly a 22-year-old, I'm certainly feeling much less 'old' than I was a few weeks ago.
So roll on 2009....I've started to enjoy you again!
PS: Just remembered that our producer was telling us the other night that when Priestly came to Dunedin he attended a party at the Globe TheatreYour text goes here in London St, Dunedin. Apparently he smoked cigars so regularly, and carelessly, that his 'going-out' clothes had little holes in them where he'd dropped ash on them. He also loosened up considerably as the evening went on, with the aid of some alcoholic lubricants...just as the characters in the play do.
Firstly, I've been working. Yes, I still work. Normal 40 hour week.
Secondly, I've been studying, doing a distance learning course online, about research methods. Finding it very enjoyable, and right up my alley. And so far the marks have been pretty good as well.
Thirdly, I'm rehearsing for a play which goes on at the end of May - the 23rd, to be precise. (It's on for a week). The play is called, When We Are Married, and apparently was the first play in history to be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It's a lot of fun, and I've been moved up the cast list from a small two page role as Rev Mercer, an unctious Anglican
Fourthly, the drama group at church is going to be presenting a bunch of short dramas relating to a series, People of the Spirit, that's coming up in May and will be running through to late June/early July. I'm appearing in the first of these dramas - right in the middle of the rehearsals for the other play - and then will probably appear as the same character in some of the later ones (once the Priestly is out of the way).
Fifthly, (and this isn't an excuse) I've got heaps more energy than I had earlier in the year, which is a great bonus. Things in the waterworks department are functioning fine, with less and less pain, and, while I'm not exactly a 22-year-old, I'm certainly feeling much less 'old' than I was a few weeks ago.
So roll on 2009....I've started to enjoy you again!
PS: Just remembered that our producer was telling us the other night that when Priestly came to Dunedin he attended a party at the Globe TheatreYour text goes here in London St, Dunedin. Apparently he smoked cigars so regularly, and carelessly, that his 'going-out' clothes had little holes in them where he'd dropped ash on them. He also loosened up considerably as the evening went on, with the aid of some alcoholic lubricants...just as the characters in the play do.
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