Last night, the boyfriend and I went to an improvisational theatre performance ( Read more... )

Started dress rehearsals this evening. Two more nights of that, and then we're performing.

If I seem absent, or just dead tired, this week... that's why.

Had rehearsals last night.

The scene I'm in is one long party sequence. And yes, I have many lines, but I have even more time standing around in the background murmuring to people in vague having-a-conversation tones.

After a while, you run out of stuff to say to each other. Some people have been just saying what they're saying ("Pretty dress, ( Read more... )

Had some fancy china delivered yesterday - in a box that could have fit ten times as much china in it, but instead (to prevent breakages) was filled mostly with shredded paper. In fact, there was so much shredded paper in it that it took me over ten minutes to find the china ( Read more... )

Last night I had the most useless rehearsal in my entire history of acting.

We went through the lines, discussing the motive and direction of each line.
Then we all sat in a circle and discussed our characters, and what their history and childhood is like, and how they feel about life, and what colour best describes them ( Read more... )

Two days ago, someone asked me if I was still doing "the acting thing". And I said no, I wasn't, I didn't really have time ( Read more... )

I've spent another weekend almost entirely without internet.
This was not a good thing.

On the other hand, I was very busy, so at least I had plenty of non-internet-related things to do...

( my weekend )

I'm going to see Arsenic and Old Lace tonight. Should be fun, but I'll probably end up coming home and watching the movie straight away, just to get the proper characters back in my head.

Today, my nephew picked out a book, climbed up on my lap, and asked "read please?" And the only part of that sentence that doesn't make me beam with pride and ( Read more... )

Some day soon, the Social Norms Police are going to break down my door, arrest me for "violating accepted standards of conversation with strangers, and profiting from said violation", and cart me off to the funny farm.

You see, I'm rather shy. Left to myself, I probably wouldn't end up talking to anyone. Ever. But, like most shy people, I have come ( Read more... )

A selection of photos from No Love Lost.


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